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Subscribe to RSSSeveral civilians were killed by a car bomb in central Damascus on Sunday, according to witness reports, as President Bashar Assad prepared to meet international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi for talks about a possible truce in Syria's civil war.
Ambulances sped to the site and security forces cut off access to the site near Bab Touma, one of the seven gates of the historic Old City.
Several cars were burnt, the witnesses told Reuters.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene said he saw blood stains in the street and on the pavements. He said glass windows of several shops in the area were shattered and at least four cars were completely burnt.
For a fourth straight day, Turkey's border with Syria is the scene of intense fighting. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
Damascus residents said Assad's forces shelled several districts on the edge of the Syrian capital overnight. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors violence across the country, said 140 people were killed in Syria on Saturday.
A report by regional news channel Al Jazeera quoted Syrian state television station SANA as saying said 10 people were killed and that the blast was caused by an explosive device planted under a car by an "armed terrorist group" - the term the regime uses for the rebels seeking to topple Assad.
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as opposed to an UN-armed terrorist group? would they still be a terrorist group if they were unarmed?
Even in Iraq most of the suicide bombings are in Shiites areas.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB, Taliban and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Libya, Yemen, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places).
Sunni Saudi backed Salaffi and MB new chapters are opening up in Egypt. Just watch the fate of Christians, women and Israel as the time goes by.
Even in Syria, if Assad is overthrown by Sunni Islamic religious Nazis like al-Qaida, MB, the conditions of Christians will be unbearable just like Iraq.
Pakis and Sunni Saudis and co are responsible for 80 percent of world problems including economic ones. Examine the devastations with Iraqi wars and now sanctions on Iranian oil and the resultant oil price manipulations.
They are making the lives of their own people also miserable by their Islamic religious madness to the intolerable levels.
The Coptic Christians (and other professed infidels) - across Northern Africa or the 'stans - who would refugee out, should get going now to leave. Let the rest of their populace muddle through - right back to the 7th century if they chose to do so. Hopefully the young people won't put up with it, and not have any more teenage girls shot in the head and threatened. What a bunch of worthless jackasses are the taliban and religious police.
Kudos, Scooter Tramp! Ya beat me to it.
Both sides of the war are terrorists. The more they kill each other, the better for the world.
Anyone that wishes the death of other people is a terrorist.
Shiites of Iraq should hit back on Sunnis for their suicide bombings. They should side with Kurds and attack Turkey for supporting Syrian rebels supported by Sunni Islamic religious Nazis and killers like those al Qaida, MB, Salaffi, Wahhabi and others.
See how people look in one direction.
Many are just ignoring or forgetting the Saudi inspired Islamic radicalism and terrorism in Nigeria, Egypt and other places right now going on!
Barbaric and beastly bigoted Sunni Saudis and outsourced their dirty work to Turkey and now via to the US, Britain and others before their Sunni Arab League dramas in Syria!
The head of the Saudi and their Arab League observers to Syria Sudanese Gen was responsible for the genocides of at least 300000 Christians in Darfur!
GBR in O-H, I-O
So if I am mad at someone and maybe thinking for a moment "I wish this person was dead," does not make me a terrorist. Think of all the times you probably have wished someone harm, well wishing doesn't make you a terrorist.
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Hafexz al-Assad was a dictator who constructed a cult of personality and whose authoritarian administration oversaw the multiple human rights abuses both at home and abroad. He was also father of Bashar al-Assad. During its decades of rule... the Assad family developed a strong political safety net by firmly integrating the military into the regime. In 1970, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, seized power after rising through the ranks of the Syrian armed forces, during which time he established a network of loyal Alawites by installing them in key posts. In fact, the military, ruling elite, and ruthless secret police are so intertwined that it is now impossible to separate the Assad regime from the security establishment....
A pair of dangerous dictatorial psycopaths.
See the jokes going in Syria with Sunni Saudi rebels, al-Qaida, MB on one side and the Assad’s forces on the other sides!
Just check all languages of the media, UN Security council, human rights groups, Erdogan’s, and others! These are paid pipers of Sunni Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists.
Shiites and Sunnis are busy battling whose Allah is greater.
What roles Hillarys, McCains, Netanyahos, Libernanns, Romneys have in Syria and Iran?
If atrocities and barbarism on girls, children and women are the criteria, then the most despotic, autocratic and bigoted Sunni Saudi ruler with his 5000 princes and princesses, Kuwaiti, UAE and other Arab League Sunni rulers and their rich sheiks are the biggest culprits in the history.
Through the Muslim immoral trafficking gangs, these barbarians have assembled all varieties of poor and helpless girls and women from all over the world in their harems and brothels.
In killing of opponents again, these people have established world records in religious battles.
If the US, Britain and others support such Sunni barbarians and beasts who treat girls and women as cheap sex slaves, then one can only conclude that Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists determine what to see, how to lecture and where and when to act.
Rest like “human rights”, “killing of children and women”, “militants”, “terrorists”, “WMDs”, “chemical weapons” and so on are a pure hoax.
Similar hoaxes were played each time before Iraqi wars on directions of Saudi, oil companies and their lobbyists.
Now none of them are looking into Iraq, where at least a million have been killed and devastated.
Twice are too much to tolerate.
Hey Jonathan..."Shiites and Sunnis are busy battling whose Allah is greater.".... Really? Don't care - because newsflash - the answer is "none of the above". Obviously you don't agree with the Sunni sect, the more moderate "brand", but the Saudi Wahabbis are the worst. (And if you really cared, you'd let the Kurds have their traditional territory north of Iraq.)
happytimeshereagain: I am for all Kurds should have their Kurdistan; Pashtoons their Pashtunistan; and any other "stan" one can imagine.
Both Sunni Saudi barbaric and beastly Salaffi, Wahhabi are the worst. So infidels like Shiites, Kurds and other Muslim sect people should wage jihad on Sunnis and blow the fountainhead of world problems: Mecca and Medina!
When Shiites Karbala could be bombed what is the big deal about Mecca and Medina!
Mario 69 you right all the way buddy , but could you tell what about the Saudis and Qataris , Bahrain , Jordan , Morocco and all these little kingdoms and Emirates in that Area, they make Assad look like Saint Peter , are we to say we need to go and send arms and groups in these to destroy these countries , and kill civilians , and is it OK for these thugs to kill and bomb , and what about the Christians in Syria , what did they ever do to these thugs , except being Christians , come on man , lets call it like we see it in every country .
Mr. My turn -
Its your turn; you go first.
Funny how they keep saying "armed terrorist group" when they say it's a civil war. Civil war mean the people of the country are not happy with the way it is being ran and talking does nothing, so they use force. They are citizens of that country not terrorists. Even though in the U.S. if something like this started they would refer to the people, as the U.S. citizens as domestic terrorists.
That hasn't happened since the Civil War. You don't know who would be called what.
Kick out the most dangerous criminals and front cover for Sunni Islamic killers like al-Qaida, MB, Salaffi and Wahhabi, Syrian Observatory for human rights.
What human rights do the Sunni Islamic religious Nazis and their patrons like seventh Sunni Saudis and co know?
Saudi Arabia does not permit freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Let the barbarians of Syrian Observatory for human rights move to their right place, Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Bosguy -
150 years ago I would have been called a Unionist, or a Yankey, but not an abolitionist (I didn't join that party). My opposition would have been called Sessesh, or Rebel, or Traitor.
How does this apply to Syria?
What Bosguy is sayin is that some nation's go through political unrest and even civil war as a means to an end, which most intelligent people would hope is a stable government that is supported by its own people. The various factions that are fighting against each other in these Arab Spring nations are terrorist groups, though some clearly aren't. For example, in our own Civil War, the Union forces fought against the Confederate forces to preserve the Union, protect the US government, and to uphold the abolition of slavery. No other nations came in to settle the bloody dispute amongst our own people, and frankly that's the way it should be... I don't think Americans view our own civil war as one between terrorist groups, but I guess you can try to use that analogy; however, it's a really weak one...
keep up the good work muslims, the more "piece" talks you have makes the rest of the world that much safer.
Assad would ONLY talk IF 1. he really he thought he was losing and could get the rebels to stop so he could come up with another plan and try to double cross them by regrouping and attacking or 2. he lost (no, Hitler sat in his Berlin bunker coming up with more plans while the Soviet were on one side of Berlin and the Allies on the other). Assad will NEVER surrender. The Rebels will have to take him out and if they sign a cease fire, I hope they pull a double cross and stock up and plot and hide and plan and recruit and ATTACK when Assad double crosses them.
No peace with Assad, just kill him!
BETTER HOPE that ASSAD can stay in power---if he can't this will be another MUSLIME---SLIME--BROHOOD run country---HE is FIGHTING the REAL TERRORISTS as we speak but to hear the LIAR in CHIEF and his BI*CH CLITOON talk the "REBELS" are the PEOPLE of SYRIA !! YA RIGHT and THE MURDERS of OUR PEOPLE in LIBYA was because of a movie !!!
OBAMA and his BUTT BUDS are nothing but TRASH and we will be removing it in 2 WEEKS!
OBAMA has been lying from the start---""AL Q and THE TALIBAN are done for " I BEAT THEM""---this is what the LIAR said and has been saying---BUT GUESS WHAT there MR.LIAR IN CHIEF---YOU are a bigger FOOL than CARTER and BILLY BJ ever could have hoped to be--YOU ARE a JOKE--an insolent, militant, incompetent, narcissistic, execrable, America-hating slug.
@jscusmc69, You need to learn a little history here. Assad came into power in 2000 just like Bush (time line reference) in 2003 Bush invaded Iraq Assad was very much against the US for that. To say that Obama is the result for dislike from the Assad Regime is Redundant. Our problems with Assad started with Bush and the Bush Legacy lives on. You are not to bright to realize that these people do not see a President that did something against their likes or dislikes. They see a Country as their Problem. Change Presidents a hundred times and they still see the Country as their Enamy. Jeeeze! Stupid Republican Troll!
TROLL yup that you are! BEEN here MUCH longer than you.......... and as to the ASSAD GOVT--OBAMA has a RECORD of backing his MUSLIME BROTHERS---did that in EGYPT,TUNISIA,LIBYA---and THE MONEY still FLOWS there---BUT of course his SLIME BROS would NOT EVEN THINK to MURDER any REAL AMERICANS now would they! HISTORY I know maybe you should take your own advice!
OH and ANOTHER THING---your OBAMANATION was a PRACTICING MUSLIME for 31 YEARS---that TELLS me a WHOLE LOT as to HIS LEANINGS!
OBAMA SAID---I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
4-3-08 Article 'Obama was 'quite religious in Islam''
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and I would CAUTION you on calling PEOPLE STUPID---never know when you might cross paths.
Thanks for trying 6dogs, he (or she) must be a crazy Teabagger.
You just can't talk any sense into these people who deny Science and Evolution, stem-cell research, and are idiots who think that every Arab person is Muslim. Not all Arabs are Muslim, and not all Muslims are violent religious fanatics. By the way, President Obama and the First Lady are African-Americans and are Christians, and you should show some respect for the Office of the President of the United States of America, you fool!
Romney would be eager to push the nuclear war button and destroy the earth. after all he has several other planets he can go to and live in paradise. And the reality is he believes that poop. If you don't beleive it you know nothing about the mormon cult, check it out. Scares the hell out of me.
There is more profit to be made in conventional war with lots and lots of hardware, so I don't see him going nuke. I suspect he will send us into Syria and Iran (and back into Iraq). Reinstate the draft?
People who believe in any religion scare me.
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth...
Oh that video like in Benghazi.
Have the followers of Islamic cult ever kept a word, any truce deal and lastly "peace deal."?
Only thing they know is to break everyone of them and then turn a place to pieces!
Just muslims being muslims
Same @!$%#, different day.
Hey if your going on a cease fire for a few days you want to get as much in as you can before hand. Come on they need a few days to clean the weapons.