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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian security defuse chemical laden car bomb in city of Homs -state tv
2019-05-09
[Ynet] Syrian authorities defused a boom-mobile planted in the heart of a main residential area in the city of Homs that had quantities of highly explosive chemicals, Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said on Wednesday.

It said the car laden with C4 chemicals had been planted in the Zahra district of the city. The news flash gave no further details. The district has a mainly Alawite population and in the past has been targeted by Sunni gunnies seeking to bring down the family rule of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, who himself is from the country's minority Alawite sect.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  A fair point, Herb. Title modified to slightly reduce confusion until the reader has seen our comments. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-05-09 10:30  

#1  Misleading headline, chemical weapons are different.

Those are the ones that the Syrian government was accused of using, right exactly whenever support for the opposition appeared to be waning, and always at the worst possible time for them.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-05-09 04:38  

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