Friday, December 23, 2011

al Qaeda in Damascus

Rather than New York, London or Paris, al Qaeda has decided to pick - of all the metropolitan centres of human civilization - Assad's Damascus, on the first Friday after Arab League observers come to the country. This story is according to the Syrian regime, which made this claim in a record forty minutes after Damascus residents heard the explosions. I think that's nonsense, and there are only two possibilities. Either it is a bogus attack carried out by Assad's incompetent secret police, or it is a genuine attack carried out by the opposition's incompetent armed wing. I say the opposition's incompetence, because I can find nothing sillier than blowing up bombs in Damascus just when the Arab League observers have arrived to figure out just what the hell is happening in Syria. If they have carried out such an act, then they will have given the regime further fuel for its claims that it is fighting a terrorist insurgency, rather than repressing the Syrian people. Expect more claims and counter-claims, accusations and lies, as this story progresses.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

well there has been previous attacks in damascus but none were as big as todays attack...

every sane person, I would assume, will think that the attack is very suspicious and certainly fabricated by the regime. When Muallem said he is confident the observers will find evidence to support the regime's claims then you would think the regime has something planned.

the explosion today definitely stinks of regime foul play, I suppose they are eager to show the observers something.

so another bout of accusations and counter claims as you say. the situation is getting worse

Anonymous said...

>> Rather than New York, London or Paris, al Qaeda has decided to pick - of all the metropolitan centres of human civilization - Assad's Damascus,

1) that's a very arrogant and insulting thing to say

2) AQ has hit and killed arabs and muslims more than westerners !

your post is insulting to all the civilians who die in iraq every day!