Deadly blast rocks Syrian capital

Published time: May 22, 2012 07:22
Edited time: May 22, 2012 12:13
A handout picture from the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian men carrying away a corpse at the site of twin blasts in Damascus on May 10, 2012 (AFP Photo/HO/SANA)

An explosion in a restaurant in the Syrian capital has killed five people, Syrian state media report. The blast struck the Qaboun district of Damascus and has been branded a “terrorist” attack.

The Assad government uses this term when referring to members of Syrian opposition groups.

The neighborhood has been the site of several protests demanding the ouster of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

The UK-based rights group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bomb went off just after midnight, but gave no information as to who was behind the attack.

The blast is the latest in a series of explosions that have rocked the embattled country over the last couple of weeks. On Saturday a suicide bomb ripped through the parking lot of a security compound in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, killing nine people and injuring 100.

The Assad government said the boms blasts were also orchestrated by terrorists.

Twin suicide bomb attacks struck Damascus on May 10, claiming 55 lives and injuring hundreds. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the violence, saying he believed Al Qaeda must be behind the blasts.

Uprisings against President Assad begun fourteen months ago and have become increasingly militarized and violent over the past months, in spite of the ceasefire imposed by the UN.

UN monitors are currently stationed in the country to oversee a joint Arab League-UN brokered peace plan.

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art 22.05.2012 14:34

=> SMJ (unregistered) wrote://.. if CIA was involved.. Assad would have gone a year ago ..//CIA has been involved in regime change in Cuba for decades. Castro still rules.
//Please also try read other websites other than this one//
Most people here are the ones who are well aware of Western media's positions and are sick of it.. "it does not take a genuis to work it out".
//.. I've been reading.. that US is most definately going to invade Iran - what a pile of uter rubbish of course they aren't, they can't afford it for a start ..//
Your unstated assumption here is that US is run by a rational and sane crowd. Is that by itself not "a pile of utter rubbish"?

As always, those come to battle with the "conspiracy theory" shield have really nothing of substance to offer.

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SMJ (unregistered) 22.05.2012 11:40

Good god you lot are so tedious as much as I enjoy reading your usual conspiracy theory nonsense it really does get boring - if CIA was involved or any other Western Secret Service Assad would have gone a year ago, they would not have let this situation drag on and on and on like it has - in fact it's their inaction over Syria that has let this situation drag on and on and on. Please also try read other websites other than this one - RT is not gospel and quite often posts biased and incorrect articles (Much more than other Western media it does not take a genuis to work it out)- for example I'm pretty sure I've been reading for the last couple of months that US is most definately going to invade Iran - what a pile of uter rubbish of course they aren't, they can't afford it for a start yet this 'news outlet' keeps insisting that they will.

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pastry (unregistered) 22.05.2012 11:27

(gigladred) America is already self destructing because it is morally bankrupt  and it is only a matter of time before it is financially bankrupt so your wish is coming true,

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