Car bomb near police HQ in central Damascus kills at least one (PHOTOS)

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Published time: October 07, 2012 17:24
Edited time: October 07, 2012 23:44

A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows the wreckage of the burnt vehicles at the site of a car bomb attack at Damascus police headquarters.(AFP Photo / Sana)

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An official within the Syrian government claims a car bomb has exploded outside the police headquarters building in the capital, Damascus. The country's state news agency said at least one person has died in the attack, and seven others were wounded.

Local residents also reported hearing a large explosion. Some witnesses also said they heard heavy gunfire immediately after the explosion.

Syrian State TV has called the blast 'a terrorist attack'.

A government official told The Associated Press the blast was caused by a car bomb in the Fahameh district near police headquarters. He added that the explosion damaged nearby cars and buildings.

There have also been unconfirmed reports of a second blast that took place outside the criminal security building, also located in the heart of the Syrian capital.

Both Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo have become frequent targets for car bombs and suicide blasts.

The Syrian civil war began in March 2011, and according to UN data, has claimed the lives of 20,000 people, most of them civilians. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled the country since the uprising started.

A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows the wreckage of the burnt vehicles at the site of a car bomb attack at Damascus police headquarters.(AFP Photo / Sana)

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jha (unregistered) 08.10.2012 19:05

Captain Obvious (unregistered) wrote in #3
Morsi is the closest thing to saladin the mideast has seen in generations.
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Al-Jaz eera is the mouth piece of the Muslim Brotherhood...Al-Qar dhawi their "spiritual" pope spends hours lecturing about what Islam is....while a few miles from Al-Jazeera there is one of the biggest American military base in the Middle East...from there bombings of Muslim children are decided...in Qatar.
The Muslim Brotherhood like the Wahhabis did before them are fighting Muslims and destabilizing Arab countries with Western help!

Salahdi n would have cut their heads himself...

Be fore cooperating with nations...one must be independent and sovereign....That is what the Syrian people is trying to do...Sunni,Christian s,Alawite,Kurds all are busy fighting Al -Qaeda and all the pro western pseudo salafi wahhabi terrorists...
Let s hope that the opposition will come to its senses and join forces with the Syrian army before it is too late...Democracy without Sovereignty doesn't mean anything....

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Captain Obvious (unregistered) 08.10.2012 11:08

THIS IS AMERICAS DEMOCRACY (unregistered) wrote in #7
WASHINGTO N is playing dirty as usual and is responsible for all the deaths in Syria. They started this.
The US and its Proxies are doing what they did in Lybia and playing dirty.

Washin gton has its dirty Proxies Turkey,Saudi Arabua,Qatar, and help from the other Colonialists France and England decimate Syria.
Hey thats really fair isn't it. 10 on to one.
Washington is too chicken to put ground troops in any country so it gets its proxies to hire old friends AL Queda and other Terrorists to do the fighting.
Had the US put ground troops in Lybia or Syria the casualties would mount and maybe the US population will then have some problems with these never ending WARS FOR OIL- WARS FOR TERRITORY.
The Blood is on Washington's HAnds. Hey Obama doing the boogie boogie??? Your Phony War on Gadaffi slaughtered 200,000 through your NATO BOMBINGS.
Now OBAMA is doing the same and while he hustles around the US election circle NOT A MURMUR ABOUT THE WARS ENDING ********** ***********for every syrian who supports baathi rule there are ten oppossed. there is no need for foreign intervention. Just give the ten adequate weapons to defend themselves and they will easily win. With scarcely more than home made bombs and captured AK47 they control over half of the square kilometers.

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THIS IS AMERICAS DEMOCRACY (unregistered) 08.10.2012 03:14

WASHINGTON is playing dirty as usual and is responsible for all the deaths in Syria. They started this.
The US and its Proxies are doing what they did in Lybia and playing dirty.

Washin gton has its dirty Proxies Turkey,Saudi Arabua,Qatar, and help from the other Colonialists France and England decimate Syria.
Hey thats really fair isn't it. 10 on to one.
Washington is too chicken to put ground troops in any country so it gets its proxies to hire old friends AL Queda and other Terrorists to do the fighting.
Had the US put ground troops in Lybia or Syria the casualties would mount and maybe the US population will then have some problems with these never ending WARS FOR OIL- WARS FOR TERRITORY.
The Blood is on Washington's HAnds. Hey Obama doing the boogie boogie??? Your Phony War on Gadaffi slaughtered 200,000 through your NATO BOMBINGS.
Now OBAMA is doing the same and while he hustles around the US election circle NOT A MURMUR ABOUT THE WARS ENDING< THE US INTERVENTIONS ENDING. NOTHING,NADA.

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