Damascus Car Bomb Toll Rises to 11
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A car bomb in a north Damascus neighborhood mainly inhabited by members of President Bashar Assad's Alawite minority killed at least 11 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.
Two children were among the dead in the attack which occurred late Thursday in the Massaken Barzeh district, the Britain-based watchdog said.
The official SANA news agency said the bomb struck a petrol station near a hospital and that it also wounded many civilians.
The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) activist network also reported the attack, adding that large numbers of troops deployed in the neighborhood afterwards.
Nationwide at least 160 people died in violence on Thursday, including 72 civilians, said the Observatory, which gathers information from a network of medics and activists.
On Wednesday, the United Nations said the overall death toll from the 21-month conflict had topped 60,000.
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Today it is a civil war. It started with peaceful protests which were met with the customary Assad family sadistic brutality. To highlight the tragedy inherent in the statistics one has merely to recall Ali Farzat and Ibrahim al-Qashoush. Assad is a real lion of a batal who defecates in his sherwal while doffing his tarboush to the "Zionist enemy" across the most bucolic of borders, but grabs his shwareb with pride while he slits the throat of a helpless songwriter.
