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Large explosions leave carnage in Syria capital
CBS News ^ | May 10, 2012 | AP

Posted on 05/10/2012 12:16:19 AM PDT by ilcenter

(AP) DAMASCUS, Syria - Two strong explosions shook the Syrian capital Thursday, sending a plume of thick black smoke into the sky.

The explosions were in the Qazaz neighborhood, where a Syrian intelligence agency has its headquarters.

The explosions happened just before 8 a.m., when employees are usually arriving at work.

CBS News' George Baghdadi, reporting from the scene, says about 40 burned-out cars and possibly dozens of badly burned bodies were scattered in front of the intelligence office.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: capital; carnage; damascus; explosions; iran; israel; large; leave; lebanon; syria; turkey; waronterror
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1 posted on 05/10/2012 12:16:21 AM PDT by ilcenter
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To: ilcenter

Looks like Iran switched sides.


2 posted on 05/10/2012 12:20:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: ilcenter

Terror is a double-edged sword. Sooner or later, Damascus was going to feel its own steel.


3 posted on 05/10/2012 12:53:41 AM PDT by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Either that or someone in the resistance finally cracked open a Chemistry book.


4 posted on 05/10/2012 12:56:18 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi)
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To: ilcenter

5 posted on 05/10/2012 1:19:33 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: ilcenter

The religion of peace is at war again. They hate so stinking much that they divided their gutter religion in two parties and they hate each others guts and kill each other at will. Amazing how they hate so much. Either accept our brand of thinking or we will kill you! Oh, and if you don’t side with one or the other side of it, we will blow you up also! Great. Wonderful. Such peaceful, loving, caring, murdering thugs.


6 posted on 05/10/2012 1:23:59 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (He has Risen!!! If you do not know Him, this is the perfect week to seek Him out!!!)
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To: RetiredArmy

ever read about Detroit and Chicago ?


7 posted on 05/10/2012 1:40:10 AM PDT by advertising guy ( Slo Joe Biden " I promise you the President has a big stick, but Michelle's is bigger ")
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To: ilcenter
Video of second explosion
8 posted on 05/10/2012 2:14:48 AM PDT by ilcenter
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To: ilcenter
Scene of explosions, taken by state-run Syrian media (some graphic imagery)
9 posted on 05/10/2012 2:14:59 AM PDT by ilcenter
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I haven’t heard of bombs going off killing and maiming dozens of people in Detroit and Chicago. Sure there way too much violence in those two cites, but equating it to middle east violence, IMO, is a stretch.


10 posted on 05/10/2012 2:33:20 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: luvbach1

Please accept corrected version:

I haven’t heard of bombs going off killing and maiming dozens of people in Detroit and Chicago. Sure there is way too much violence in those two cities, but equating it to Middle East violence, IMO, is a stretch.


11 posted on 05/10/2012 2:35:41 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: ilcenter

This overseas crap is just a diversion from domestic issues; our country has been “fundamentally changed” and we’re supposed to think Syria is important?

We no longer have the luxury of pretending to care about people halfway around the world with whom we don’t share a single trait in common.


12 posted on 05/10/2012 2:56:18 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: luvbach1; All
I haven’t heard of bombs going off killing and maiming dozens of people in Detroit and Chicago. Sure there is way too much violence in those two cities, but equating it to Middle East violence, IMO, is a stretch.

Just give it time FRiend, give it time.
13 posted on 05/10/2012 3:16:03 AM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: mkjessup
I haven’t heard of bombs going off killing and maiming dozens of people in Detroit and Chicago. Sure there is way too much violence in those two cities, but equating it to Middle East violence, IMO, is a stretch.

Just give it time FRiend, give it time.

Come to think of it, if the Messiah is defeated that might happen. On the other hand, if he declares martial law and suspends the election, the riots (actually the rebellion)would occur elsewhere.

14 posted on 05/10/2012 6:02:09 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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I haven’t heard of bombs going off killing and maiming dozens of people in Detroit and Chicago. Sure there way too much violence in those two cites, but equating it to middle east violence, IMO, is a stretch.

You will see it in Detroit and Chicago when the Muslims in Dearborn, MI feel sufficiently disrespected.

15 posted on 05/10/2012 6:35:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: luvbach1

The crazy mo’s have redone the phrase: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.

It’s now: “The friend of my friend is my enemy”.


16 posted on 05/10/2012 6:39:14 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: ilcenter

I am rooting for a protracted Syrian civil war. The more men and materiel that are expended by that terror state the better for Israel and the U.S.


17 posted on 05/10/2012 6:42:20 AM PDT by montag813
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To: ilcenter

Real life Freddy vs. Jason. They just picked teams.
“I’ll take Achmaad”.
“O.K., then I’ll take Mohammad”.
...and so on.


18 posted on 05/10/2012 6:52:32 AM PDT by bramps
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The People’s Front of Judea vs The Judean People’s Front


19 posted on 05/10/2012 6:55:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: montag813

Yes, when Muslims keep busy killing each other they have less time to kill infidels. May they war with themselves from Morocco clear across to Lahore.


20 posted on 05/10/2012 7:24:38 AM PDT by wrencher
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