Suicide bombings
in Syria are not meant to terrify the Syrian people but the international community.
Yes, the Assads are targeting YOU, and it’s probably working. Because, right
now, you’re probably thinking very hard about the necessity of shirking
your moral responsibility towards the innocent. The responsibility to protect,
and all that legal jargon, is becoming increasingly meaningless. Who’s winning
the War on Terror now?
Thursday May 10, 2012
Death Toll: 26, including:
10 in Homs, 8 in Aleppo, 3 in Rural Damascus, 2 in Idlib, 2 in Daraa and 1 in Hama
City. 55 more were killed in the two explosions that rocked Damascus.
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Op-Eds & Special Reports
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Resistance
leaders on the ground, who to date continue to push for international
intervention and pin their hopes on getting it, know fully well that chaos will
not help their cause. On the other hand, chaos is exactly what the Asasds have
been actively trying to create in order to dissuade the international community
from contemplating any interventionist scenarios.
So, quo benificio
from all the “terrorist attacks” taking place across Syria these days? The
Assads of course. They remain the culprits and the true puppet masters behind
the Jihadi marionettes, and not only in Syria. World and regional leaders would
better watch out.
Just to
drive the point home, the title of this Washington Post report says it all: Suicide
attack in Syria makes international action less likely.
But the Guardian
did not fail to remind its readers at length of the controversy surrounding the
spate of terror attacks in the country:
Opinions are still
divided about two attacks on similarly sensitive security installations in the
Kafr Sousseh area of Damascus before Christmas. Opposition sources described
mysterious transfers of prisoners to the heavily guarded buildings the day before
the blasts, which coincided with the arrival of Arab League monitors. Western
governments concluded that those attacks had been carried out by an
al-Qaida-type group using military explosives and methods perfected in Iraq.
The next attack, a
suicide bombing on 6 January in the nearby suburb of Meidan, was widely
believed to have been staged by the Syrian authorities.
Film inadvertently
broadcast on state media showed apparently dead or injured people moving around
after being filmed, and objects such as shopping bags being placed at the scene
by security personnel. State media arrived surprisingly quickly, adding to
suspicions that it was an elaborate fake. Opposition sources claimed that names
on the casualty lists in these incidents have been duplicated.
Considering
how the Russians rushed to bill our innocent visit to Kosovo, branding it as an
attempt to study terror tactics, and their adoption of the regime’s version of things
concerning these attacks, it seems that they are very much aware of Assad’s
plans, and very much supportive of them. Since the Assads are the puppet
masters of the Jihadis, perhaps the Russians are now the puppet masters of the
Assads. With this in mind, our story then is not about the simple marionettes,
but more about marionettes-cum-matrioshkas.
Cartoon by Syrian artist Ali Ferzat
Video Highlights
In Hama
City’s Eleilat neighborhood, worshippers come under fire even as they
pray in a local mosque http://youtu.be/oMbiAraCU9c
Bab
Houd
neighborhood, Homs City: pulling bodies from the streets continues to be a dangerous
but necessary “pastime” http://youtu.be/CZsl-_o4RGE
People keep stumbling on unidentified bodies in the streets ad in the fields: Um
Walad, Daraa http://youtu.be/5jR1-pR_1mQ
More towns
and cities across the country continue to come under fire night: Kafrenbel,
Idlib http://youtu.be/qJgZ3FQCUrk Tafas,
Daraa http://youtu.be/p6_N6ikVDxA Daraa
City http://youtu.be/nbmPtYYE74w
The pounding
of Homs City continues: Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/EXXjGp8JJzQ , http://youtu.be/wNvafSS02bE Qoussour
http://youtu.be/quMjalYgSMI , http://youtu.be/_w432v7z4gw
The suburb
of Kafar Batna, rural Damascus, comes under fire during daytime http://youtu.be/o86L4glm1BE So does the
nearby town of Dmeir http://youtu.be/twj7ZcxuYjQ
Bdama, Idlib comes under fire
during the day http://youtu.be/VlviUxD-JuM
People
hold more funerals: Kafar Sousseh, Damascus City http://youtu.be/p2_XQES_UNE Arbeen,
Rural Damascus http://youtu.be/Njoa_IzjU8o
Shaghour, Damascus City http://youtu.be/Viwgmx2Zmj0
Bouaydah, Homs http://youtu.be/vcekwt2DGzA
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