Powerful Car Bombs Kill at Least 25 in Aleppo, Rebel Army Blames Regime
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Two powerful car bombs targeting security posts ripped through Syria's second city of Aleppo on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 175 as the Free Syrian Army blamed the regime for the attacks.
State television said "armed terrorist groups" carried out the attacks, the first in Aleppo since the outbreak of an uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad almost a year ago.
It said a "suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives" carried out one of the attacks on a police station, flattening a nearby food distribution center. The second bombing targeted an intelligence base.
The report showed mangled bodies in pools of blood in the street outside rows of shattered buildings, and deep craters in the ground.
Emergency workers held up body parts, including hands, feet and a torso which they placed in black trash bags.
"The number of martyrs who have been transported to hospital in Aleppo have so far reached 25 dead and 175 wounded as a result of the terrorist attacks," the health ministry said, as quoted by state television.
A spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army blamed the regime of Assad for carrying out the two deadly car bomb attacks.
"This criminal regime is killing our children in Homs and carrying out bomb attacks in Aleppo to steer attention away from what it is doing in Homs," said Colonel Maher Nouaimi told Agence France Presse.
He was referring to a weeklong blitz by government forces on the central protest city of Homs, where at least 400 people have been killed, according to activists.
Later on Friday, Syria's government blamed the twin blasts on "armed terrorist gangs" backed by Arab and Western nations, in a letter sent to the U.N. secretary general, the U.N. Security Council, the Arab League and other organizations.
"Certain countries in the region are behind a propaganda campaign against Syria and are harboring armed terrorists for so-called humanitarian reasons," the foreign ministry wrote in the letter, according to SANA state news agency.
Aleppo, a northern commercial hub, has been largely spared the unrest that has rocked Syria since last March, leaving more than 6,000 people dead according to rights groups.
10 February 2012, 12:49
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Syria is crumbling, since when did we used to hear bombs exploding in syria?... it's gonna be a long battle
10 February 2012, 13:43
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This again might be a Regime self inflicted wound to demonstrate that the Revolution is led by terrorists.
Also the declarations of support of the revolution by Alzawahery do play well to enforce the regime's extremists led revolution theroy.
11 February 2012, 19:13
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So Youssef, it looks like a duck, it sounds like a duck, and even walks like a duck, but you're saying it's a chicken?
10 February 2012, 14:17
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Is this supposed to be a sign of Aleppo joining this joke of a "revolution"? Oh wait let me guess, this was the result of peaceful protesters carrying flowers and olive branches. No, wait, it must be the government bombing itself to demonstrate how it can't control the situation. You guys are jokes. Us Syrians will overcome this crisis and peaceful terrorism and all under the leadership of Bashar al-Asad.
10 February 2012, 14:17
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car bombs..i remember the car bomb of place sassine achrafieh in 1978..the car bomb of ouzai.. tripoli... zahle.. moussaeitebeh...badaro.. we forgive but dont forget.
10 February 2012, 15:04
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Isn't it weird how these bombings only happen on Friday morning before protests?
10 February 2012, 15:29
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Like many Lebanese I grew up hating Syrians,the by product of the criminal Syrian regime.I would have never in million years imagined I would admire anything to do with a Syrian.I congratulate and salute the Brave Syrian opposition.
10 February 2012, 15:46
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The Washington Post reports today that today, February 10 was to be the day when the people of Aleppo would have their largest demonstration. This double bombing was a preemptive strike by the regime to intimidate the Opposition and to stigmatize them.
It is what Hitler did with the Reischtagg bombing. The Nazis bombed the parliament house and then blamed the Jews and used the bombing as justification for his strategy of ethnically clensing Germany of its Jews.
This is the child of that pogram. Assad treating the Syrian people like they were Jews.
10 February 2012, 15:51
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and like france which during the civil war placed a car bomb in a neighborhood allied to it to throw the blames on others!
10 February 2012, 16:51
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Actually Hitler never blamed the Reischtag on the jews....he blamed it on Poland.
10 February 2012, 15:52
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i bet you the next car bombings will occur in damascus and they ll blame the terrorists!
10 February 2012, 17:26
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one on a police station the second on an intelligence base both legitimate targets, those guys can't even protect themselves besides what's the problem wasn't that what the Lebanese resistance used to do to the Israels oppressors
10 February 2012, 18:11
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Interesting that these 'terrorist' bombings are happening in parts of the country that the government has total control over. Who is really behind them?
10 February 2012, 18:49
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What another "armed gang" "al quaeda" explosion? What is the occasion?Is the Arab league back in town? No one believes your lies ya ASSad.
10 February 2012, 21:06
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The Syrian regime, has a solid history of killing its own people. It's one of the MOST criminal regimes in the world. It sure is VERY easy for them to kill their own followers and citizens to save themselves and blame others. You see, human life doesn't mean much to the Assad regime only power and money means something. All the ones supporting this regime should be brought to trial when the time comes.
10 February 2012, 21:08
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Like Hizballa knew about all killings and assainations in Lebanon !!!
10 February 2012, 22:39
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the filthy zionist media terrorists are enjoying such news which gives them another opportunity to spread they filthy slimy lies and hate
10 February 2012, 23:35
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this is great more exciting news that shows syria going up in flames...LOng live The GREATER CIVIL OF SYRIA!
13 February 2012, 13:40
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Does anyone really take u serious lol. This (Al Qaeda working for Israel and the US) is even common knowledge to the American public and the West. Get with the picture.
13 February 2012, 13:40
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The American public jst doesnt care as long as they are not being killed...
11 February 2012, 04:42
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A trait of the Syrian regime as was in Lebanon.It started the Lebanese civil war between Christian and Muslim, then turned the Christians on each other and the Muslims on each other.
11 February 2012, 21:39
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The name of the game is called the police and army members are defecting, few minutes before the bomb, the FSA attacked this police station. Folks inside the station who refused to defend it or attack the FSA were killed in this bomb by the moukhabarat and regime.
13 February 2012, 13:32
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And this is according to anti Bashar media outlets? If I owned the news I'd make u believe anything I wanted. Ur an extremist
