Jumblat: Burning of Syrian Army Headquarters Means Whole of Syria Will Drown in Chaos

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat highlighted on Thursday the attack on the Syrian army headquarters on Wednesday, saying that the army today is “burning and being burnt due to the ruling regime and its lies.”

He said in a statement: “The burning of the headquarters means that Syria will sink into chaos, civil war, and destruction along with the Syrian army.”

“The headquarters are a legitimate target for the rebels who see it as a center for oppression, but let us try for a moment, with the Syrian people's permission, distinguish between the symbolism of the building and the oppression represented by Bashar Assad and late President Hafez Assad,” he stated.

“The Syrian army has long performed heroics in the October war and in confronting the Israeli invasion of al-Sultan Yaacoub, Ain Zhalta, and Beirut in1982,” continued the MP.

“Today however, this army is burning and being burnt because of the ruling regime that does not deserve to be described in the same line as humans and none humans,” stressed Jumblat.

One cannot help but feel disdain and hatred against those who led Syria and its ruler to this blaze, starting with the “Caesar in the Kremlin”, who on the surface appears to be peaceful, but in reality is oppressing liberties and human rights in his country, he added.

As for the Arab and international communities, they have lavished goodwill on the Syrian people, said the PSP leader sarcastically.

“The international community has outdone itself with statements that do not alter anything on the ground in Syria, while the Arab world is rife with jihadist brigades that are springing up at the expense of the rebels and secular and moderate figures,” he remarked.

“The Arab and international communities are both contributing in their own way to the raging fire in Syria,” he said.

“The burning of the Syrian army headquarters is another sad sight added to the series of desperate images of the long Syrian drama,” stated the MP.

Two suicide bombs struck the heavily guarded Syrian army headquarters in the heart of Damascus on Wednesday, killing four guards and sparking a gunbattle between troops and rebels.

The rebel Free Syrian Army's Military Council in Damascus said on its Facebook page that "the Free Syrian Army has struck the military headquarters in Damascus's Umayyad Square."

A rebel officer and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was an inside job, while an Islamist rebel group said its men carried out the attack. The claims were impossible to verify.