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Old 07-18-2012, 06:58 PM
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Sounds like an inside job...Bomber got thru layers of security..


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A bombing at Syria's national security building has killed the country's defense minister and the Syrian president's brother-in-law, and wounded other senior officials, Syrian state-run TV said.

Defense Minister Dawoud Rajha, 65, died in the attack today after four days of battles in which Syrian troops used tanks and helicopters against rebels. Rajha is the most senior official to die during the country's civil war, which has escalated since the spring of 2011.

The country's 62-year-old Deputy Defense Minister Assef Shawkat, who is Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law and a top aide, also died in the attack, according to Syrian State TV. A source in Damascus confirmed to ABC News that that Shawkat was dead on arrival to the hospital.

State television reported that the country's interior minister, Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar, is in stable condition after being wounded in the attack. The head of the national security office, Hisham Bekhtyar, was reportedly critically wounded.

The Free Syrian Army and Islamist rebel group Liwa al-Islam claimed responsibility for the attack.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=16801426
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Old 07-18-2012, 08:33 PM
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Assad hasn't been seen since. Let's hope he doesn't use chemical weapons against his people.
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Old 07-18-2012, 10:17 PM
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Assad hasn't been seen since. Let's hope he doesn't use chemical weapons against his people.

Yeah, remember 'they' said Iraq shipped their WMD's there to hide them from us...
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Old 07-19-2012, 12:26 AM
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Assad hasn't been seen since. Let's hope he doesn't use chemical weapons against his people.
Are we hoping he sticks with the conventional ones he has been using?
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Old 07-19-2012, 10:36 AM
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Syria will be the start of the new cold war. Russia (in particular) and China (to a lesser extent) will not be swayed by Obama and Hillary.
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Old 07-19-2012, 12:39 PM
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Syria will be the start of the new cold war. Russia (in particular) and China (to a lesser extent) will not be swayed by Obama and Hillary.
But they will be by Romney and whoever?
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