Blasts Kill 54 near Syria Capital

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Simultaneous car bombings killed more than 50 people and left a trail of destruction in a town near Syria's capital on Wednesday.

The explosives-packed cars were detonated at daybreak in a pro-regime neighborhood of the mainly Christian and Druze town of Jaramana, residents, state media and a rights watchdog reported.

The blasts ripped through a central square near a petrol station, sending residents fleeing in panic.

There was a ball of fire at the end of a narrow lane, and the impact of the explosions brought walls down onto cars, crushing them and scattering debris over the ground.

Pools of blood and severed body parts were on the streets, said an AFP photographer in the town.

The death toll mounted as the day wore on, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights giving tallies of 20, then 29, 38 and later 54.

More than 120 people were wounded, and many residents rushed with them to hospital, while others visited the homes of bereaved families.

"What do they want from Jaramana? The town brings together people from all over Syria and welcomes everybody," one resident told AFP.

Jarmana has now been targeted by four such bomb attacks in three months. It is home to predominantly Christians and Druze, an influential minority whose faith is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Sectarian divides are a key factor in Syria's armed rebellion, with many in the Sunni Muslim majority frustrated at more than 40 years of Alawite-dominated rule.

The Syrian uprising erupted in March 2011 with peaceful pro-democracy protests, inspired by the Arab Spring. It transformed into an armed insurgency when the government began a bloody crackdown on dissent.

The regime of President Bashar Assad, himself from the Alawite offshoot of Shiite Islam, insists it is fighting foreign-backed "terrorists".

The failure of international diplomacy has enabled it to press on with its all-out military campaign to crush the rebellion, and the fighting has resulted in more than 40,000 deaths, according to the Observatory.

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Thumb kanaandian 28 November 2012, 10:26

Salafiyeen takbeer x 10
Dead Christians. Now go rape the women's dead corpse you savage animals.

Missing people-power 28 November 2012, 19:51

Funny comment, why it didn't happen in an Alewite neighborhood? Why no member of regime was killed?

Just because it occurred in a so-called "pro-regime neighborhood", doesn't mean it wasn't the dirty Assad regime behind it. Unless you don't think they are capable of such acts?

You always demand proof, where is your proof here?

I'm not saying it was one side or the other, nor am I saying some anti-Assad islamists couldn't have done it. I'm saying we don't know, and probably never will. But you cannot say the butcher Assad was not capable of doing this, we all know his evil ways.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 11:03

as we have said countless times before, if Assad accepted free fair and internationally monitored elections this could have all been avoided... he thought he was stronger than that and decided to push them in favor of an armed revolution instead of a peaceful one... i condemn killing of innocent people on both sides... but it is amazing how you guys jump to comment when the rebels do something .. but when it is bashar who killed some children not a peep out of you... hopefully the new stock brought in will end this sooner than later and that criminal bashar who pushed his country to civil war all for his own personal reasons will be hanged...

Missing mohammad_ca 28 November 2012, 15:54

ummm what the heck are you talking about internationally monitored? Go spew your BS elsewhere...

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 18:01

assad accepted elections.. with NO MONITORS..so again dont try and twist the facts... bashar vehemently refused international observers because he knows he will lose. or else he would have had real elections in the past.. not phony well scripted ones that have him coming out with 99.9% you are smarter than that mowaten.

Missing peace 28 November 2012, 19:48

opposition in syria. are you truly believing what you are saying????? LOLLLLLLL!

the opposition as you say is carefully chosen by the regime... who dared opposed them?
now those who are, you call them terrorists. typical totalitarian reaction. all dictatorships always labeled their opponents as terrorists, nothing new here!!!

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:36

mowaten, everyone criticized the elections as unfair with no international monitors... i am prepared to show you scores of links where they openly ask for them.. can you show me ONE where it says assad accepted international monitors?

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 21:25

and he got 99.9%.. or whatever insane number that NEVER happens in a real election.. because he was the only candidate? it's not the rebels who have to prove... it is Assad.. because most logical arguments would have him losing the elections... you cannot remain in your post ghas bin 3an ra2bit il jamee3 when you have been fraudulently elected.
even with him as the sole candidate their was insane amounts of fraud in every election in syria..

Missing mohammad_ca 29 November 2012, 08:11

mooowaten he always opposed monitors on the grounds that it hits at the "siyede" of Syria stop spewing BS

Missing mohammad_ca 29 November 2012, 08:10

No he did not moowaten, I told you spew your BS elsewhere, ASSad refused international monitors, you are a joke man...please ask anyone who has ever voted n Syria how they get their ballots filled out and just drop it in the box...

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 11:03

said the follower of the iranian islamic revolution...

Default-user-icon Hanna G (Guest) 28 November 2012, 11:09

The West, led by America, France & Britain will be punished for allowing these atrocities to occur and for their support of Islamist Terrorists. May God have Mercy on the people of the West for the actions of their leaders. Zionists will receive the core punishment of God's wrath.

Missing mohammad_ca 28 November 2012, 15:55

ASSad will as well...you know...for killing 40,000 of his own people.

Missing peace 28 November 2012, 19:45

how many innocent civilians were killed by the army? the vast majority of the 40 000... you forgot his father killed between 20000 and 50000 people in hama? so slaughtering its own people isn t something weird for such a regime you are so strongly defending...they don t care about their people as long as they stay in power: that is the kind of regime you praise... you and M8! shame on you.

stop trying to minimize things mowaten ... be honest for once.

Missing peace 28 November 2012, 20:20

yeah i guess the hundreds of thousands killed were all fighters....

funny how you cry out when israel did the same in 2006 asking civilians to leave before an attack, but bombed even if there were civilians but for assad it was all right...and veen worse as he bombed his own peoplee!

what is wrong for one is good for the other! typically M8 reasonning!!!

see how dishonest you are!!!!

so read in the dictionnary for the word honest....

Missing mohammad_ca 29 November 2012, 08:13

more BS from mooowaten, the only mass massacres in Syria are by ASSad and his gangs, it seems like you never lived under Syrian occupation

Missing mohammad_ca 29 November 2012, 08:14

mooowaten, what study? when ASSad authorities let foreign news in then we can talk studies after that....ghabi

Missing abdul 28 November 2012, 12:31

This boom is been installed by the Shabila to flame up the civil war between the Syrian people and to show the world that there are foreign people in Syria fighting against the government and they have the right to kill them and killing the whole Syrian people by using this joke

Thumb shab 28 November 2012, 13:32

Regime scheme is well known. Nobody buys their tricks anymore

Thumb Lebfrcan 28 November 2012, 14:33

Either that shab or the salafist are punishing the christians and druze for standing with Assad for protection and stability. They are basically proving them wrong to stand with Assad.
All in all, very sad...

Thumb shab 28 November 2012, 17:34

Sorry I don't buy it. If so they should have done it before in a larger scale. Even Jumblatt denies it.

Missing mohammad_ca 28 November 2012, 15:47

who are "they" exactly? The ASSad regime could very well have done this to try to ruin the reputation of the opposition

Missing mohammad_ca 28 November 2012, 15:49

"most of the dead" were killed by the massacres committed by the ASSad regime...you know, aerial bombardments, tank shelling, and, yes, even car bombings...remember when the car bombings used to only target neihgbourhoods that were going out to protest on Fridays? But no car bombings ever in the pro-ASSad demonstrations? How do you explain that? The regime is complicit in bombings in the past and in the present.

Thumb thepatriot 28 November 2012, 16:25

The only thing we can say is that this is an atrocity! That blind terror is no way to win a war. Who ever did this is an animal. I am sure that some small groups use those disgusting methods out of frustration for having no means (planes, helicopters, ...) but this is unacceptable!No to blind terror, no to blind shelling!

Missing peace 28 November 2012, 17:16

funny how those M8 pups are here the first to comment on acts of terrorism but never when the syrian gvt massacres its people...
just to try and say that all the rebels are terrorists they take one event among the thousands occuring each day in syria!

they still deny that their beloved bashar is slaughtering its people which led to this situation!

so brainwashed they are to defend such a ferocious baathist system that killed more lebanese than israel ever did! 40 000 deaths in one and a half year in syria when in 15 years 150 000 lebanese were kiled altogether and still deny that bashar is a butcher!

but as simpleminded people they just make a generality out of a particular event (even if atrocious and inhuman!) : typical populist behaviour.

i condemened such atrocities by whoever did that but it is bound to happen under such an evil regime that let the situation rot knowing it will lead to that.

Default-user-icon LebExile (Guest) 28 November 2012, 18:56

you sure it's only 40,000.
I think it's 3 times that figure - alot of the deaths are undocumented or buried in mass graves.

Missing peace 28 November 2012, 19:42

yes, as you wish mowaten, as you wish... bashar is victim of an internatonal plot by the evil salafis, we know the song you ve been repeating for months. we know how much the baathist system is dear to your heart and that of M8 , a true democracy that you defend, a true system that ensures liberty of speech, freedom for all and so on...

so keep on defending this wonderful system, deny all you want that civilians are not massacred by the regime s army against all international laws . if the regime didn t start killing peaceful protestors using war guns and not tear gases like in all civilized countries these horrors wouldn t have happened.... so blame bashar for the consequences for he is responsible for it all. and M8 it s accomplice.

Missing peace 28 November 2012, 20:15

"i'm not interested in debating with a wall. take care peace, and have fun in your imaginary world."

you are surrounded by a wall that is why you cannot see beyond!

the imaginary world is yours too: denying facts and making bashar and his regime the only victims here!

since the beginning you are defending the baathist regime... all you say is to justify that even if it means distorting the truth.

your reasonning is exactly the same: a salafi saudi sponsored terrorist group is plotting against assad since the beginning and that only boils down to that! while reality is different: that is your imaginary world....

Missing mohammad_ca 29 November 2012, 08:16

do you have a youtube account ya ghabi? shaklak 3abqari math bas zero hi-tech

Missing peace 28 November 2012, 17:18

how would you call bashar karim?
a defender of democracy and liberties?

Default-user-icon clear conscience (Guest) 28 November 2012, 17:24

Don't you idiots have something else to do, other than exchange raw hatred?

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 17:57

mowaten.. we did not hear any of this during the first stages of the revolt... dont blame the rebels for something bashar pushed them into... akeed the civil war in Syria will be as dirty if not dirtier than the civil war here.. and this was all bashars doing.. areas that are compassionate with the rebels will be bombarded by assad.. ares that are sympathetic to the govt will get bombed by the rebels.. it has become a war that bashar wanted to create... and now he has it.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 17:58

and the person responsible for most of the dead is the one with the most significant advantage in weapons.. who is bombing cities.. schools.. hospitals.. hell even oil presses... planes .. tanks.. and you claim some people with ak-47s and rpgs as the ones who killed the most.. biased at best.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 18:49

mowaten i told you before.. sure there were some people who took advantage of the situation but the protests were generally peaceful...
again as i have asked MULTIPLE times before with no logical answer.. WHY didnt bashar have fair elections if he was so confident of his power base?? at first the demos were not calling for bashar to be ousted but for a scrap of the emergency law and a democratization of the repressive system. There are a magnitude of videos which show unarmed protesters being shot at or charged at by shabiha.. did many countries take advantage of the situation? sure.. but that was by bashars own fault.. again he could have internationally monitored elections and prove to the world that he is the undisputed kingpin.. but he refused.. and tried to shut everyone up with the regular b.s. elections the assads and the baath have always had.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 18:52

i do not get my info from rami abdulrahan.. and by no means is he is a balanced objective person.. but who is?? houla masacre is still being debated.. and i never said the rebels did not commit atrocities against those supporting bashar... but bashar.. and his daddy dearest have committed well known massacres which i have yet to hear you say anything against...

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 18:56

bashar is a dictator... a minority ruling a majority by sheer terror.. as hafez did..(and by minority i am not talking about religion only) at the end of the day it is bashar that gave extremists a rise.. just like HA and their weapons and policies gave salfists a rise in lebanon.. Why would the people want bashar? for the employment he is providing them? for the high standard of living? for the excellent educational and health systems? for placing alawis in all high positions and sidelining the sunnis?? this is a true spring where the people revolted for social reasons prior to the revolution being hijacked for political ones.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 19:10

and about the flag.. whats the difference.. we have a faction in the country that already carries the syrian flag wherever they go.. why is it so upsetting now??

Default-user-icon yel3anak abou zarafeh (Guest) 28 November 2012, 19:47

this is clearly something made up by this irrational regime, it reminds us of the blast in achrafieh! where the hell do the rebels have all these explosives? and why would they target christians and druze while theyre the people they need most t support from, as the followers of axis of evil "iran/syria" like to say, who is benefiting from that? the regime => who did it? unless rebels will claim they did ==> this is another failed attempt by a desperate regime to harm rebels reputation! but time will come and soon this regime will be part of history's black pages!

Thumb LEBhasNOhope 28 November 2012, 19:59

This is sensless. Its a shamefull act in every sense of the word. I hope they fry in hell, regardless of who is behind it!

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:39

"yes, not questioning that. many protesters were peaceful and had good intentions, but in the background the mercenaries and their truckloads of weapons were already active. shooting left and right to ignite tensions."
7aboob.. syria was a totalitarian state with its internal mukhabarat can find ANYONE who whispers the word Assad... suddenly they couldnt stop "truckloads of weapons and mercenaries" from entering the country???? give me a break..

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:42

"bashar changed the constitution to allow opposition parties and candidates to run against him"
his "chosen" opposition groups yes.. but again i repeat it was not the change of the constitution that was the factor.. it was the lack of international monitors.. because at the end of the day I know.. and deep down you know that a vote in syria at that time without monitors was a facade to placate the international community... again please show me an article that has assad quoted as saying he accepts international monitors even for the chosen opposition he allowed to run in the elections.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:43

"and he freed political prisoners as they asked"
he freed one for every hundred new ones he brought in.. there are well known detention camps in syria that are OVERFLOWING with political prisoners.. and every so often a new activist is arrested.. and tortured.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:47

"how can one step down to armed mercenaries and self-proclaimed "people's representatives" who dont even want to run in elections?"
again he did not invite the major opposition groups to the vote.. and yes they did not want to be in the vote without international observers.. and the answer to your question is easy.. in that situation when he was faced with a :zionist" campaign against him and not a real revolution.. and the only other option of avoiding a full scale civil war is hand power to your vice president.. and get out of the picture... once elections are held under this new provisional govt... run.. and show what you are really made of.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:50

"nope, sorry, many videos show people being shot at, indeed, but none show by whom they were shot"
willing to post a magnitude of links where shabiha are dropped off and they attack a crowd.. not to mention all the videos with the army who caught the protesters kicking them and forcing them to say "la ilaha ila bashar"
how about the guy who sang yalla 2ir7al ya bashar.. who had his vocal cords cut out.. was that the rebels as well? or was he holding a gun and shooting at anyone when he was singing it?

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:53

the protesters being shot was fueling the anger and protests, it was in no way bashar's interest to do that,
you can tell that to qaddafi, mubarak, saleh, and all the others that tried to crush their uprisings by force... some lasted longer than others.. some quit after a few days...
you have to remember that bashar is and always was a dictator.. not a reformer like you say.. he reformed nothing since he came to power..these kind of people are not used to being told no... just like the kings of old and past dictators they will crush anyone who tries to rise up against them..it's in the upbringing.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:54

where do you get them from if i may ask? 99% of the info in all the anti-bashar media front comes from him.
i get them from friends and family living in syria.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:57

"no arzak, the muslim brotherhood and their saudi sponsors did. it is nothing new and started before bashar was even born. they have been pushing for a total domination of the area, using saudi oil money and extremist ideologies. and this applies to lebanon as well."
see in lebanon there is no doubt that HA weapons brought rise to extremism.. not saudi.. why didnt they bring it all before?? why wait all this time?? it is the hatred of being ruled that forces people into extremism.. and poverty also plays a HUGE role as well.
did you hear of extremism in lebanon before HA started to shove things down everyone's throats? i could walk down tripoli with a huge gold cross dangling down my neck and wouldnt get looked at twice... have you ever thought why now??

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:58

"bashar as soon as he took power positioned himself as a reformer. there is actually nothing to blame him for in the pre-rebellion era, including in lebanon, where his only major action was to leave peacefully."
bashar did position himself as a reformer but in the years before the uprising and after he came to power reformed nothing.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 20:59

and my friend i can blame them on a lot of things they did in lebanon before and after they left.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 21:01

sunnis are not sidelined in syria, look at the syrian government for instance, there are more sunnis then alawis.
sure there is .. it's in their constitution.. but who really has the power? what good is their sunni vp?? just a figure put there to fill a constitutionally obligatory position... ALL the power and final say is in the hands of the alawais ONLY>

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 21:04

"who carries the syrian flag wherever they go? and how can you even begin to try to justify them placing their flag on our martyrs' statue on the occasion of an event which has nothing to do with syria?"
M8.. specifically HA and Amal...
i do not justify either side holding the syrian flag (in either of it's forms) in lebanon.. but my question is you support a side that ALWAYS carries syrian and iranian flags.. take a drive down ouzai and see how many different iranians are on EVERY light pole.. my question was why is it ok for M8 to do so.. but when M14 did you went berserk?

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 28 November 2012, 21:08

they are all over our country, using it as a base for training and cross-border attacks, they are armed to the teeth and roamed around making checkpoints and shooting at lebanese. how can you be lebanese, and accept that?
i do not condone it.. but you forget that i am anti-HA and i see HA as the same... why are you not speaking out when a citizen is stopped by an HA member and told he cannot go there.. or there.. how can you as a freedom loving lebanese accept that? HA does all those things... and yeah maybe the sunnis are rubbing shoulders with them .. but that is because they feel threatened by HA ...been saying from the very beginning that HA weapons will bring such issue to lebanon... but everyone should not have a problem with HA weapons.. WHY? why werent you up in arms when the syrians were here and erecting checkpoints and shooting lebanese and torturing them and robbing them? why now? because they are against you?

Missing mohammad_ca 29 November 2012, 08:08

laa according to Dunya TV mooowaten..

Default-user-icon Don_in_Odessa (Guest) 29 November 2012, 12:24

Let it begin now. Let the animal politicians drop their bombs across the whole of the globe. Let it begin now. Let the end be quick to rid this galaxy of us all. I am ashamed to be called human

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 29 November 2012, 12:24

well yes, obviously, weapons appeared from everywhere, what was it? divine intervention?
i am not talking about the weapons in the country now.. i am talking about the "truckloads of weapons and mercenaries" that, according to you, were already there... really? his mukhabarat went from being a shutdown one to a complete failure? come on man.. the raqaba inside syria was well known prior to the uprising.. how did those trucks get by without anyone feeling anything??

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 29 November 2012, 12:32

again it was not only about the constitution which he decided to hold a referendum on in the middle of hostilities WITH fraud.. it is about the people living under his and his father suppressive iron hand for over 40 years... they dont want him.. he has no right as an unelected official( lets be realistic he was not really elected) to name the commission that will make the changes to the constitution.. im sorry mowaten.. but at the end of the day the citizens have every right to rise against him andf not want to partake in anything he offers. why did you not complain about egypt? yemen? tunis? because they were a pro-west govt?

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 29 November 2012, 12:32

once the spring hit a part of the resistance axis it is a plot.. a zionist plan... wallaw ya mowaten.. be humane.. bashar is not human and does not deserve to be negotiated with.. once he is removed, ALL sectors of society can get together and come up with a real popular constitution and put that up for a referendum.. anything that comes from a killer (even before the uprising) a torturer and a dictator should not be welcomed with open arms.

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 29 November 2012, 12:43

what about everything else? the power in alawis hands where he created this sectarianism?? nothing about why you were so offended that the syrian flag was placed on martyrs square when M8 carries it EVERYWHERE and you never complained?? about Bashar being a reformer.. which he is the furthest thing from? about Bashar specifically refusing international observers for the election??

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