Syria unrest: Deadly blasts rock Idlib

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

30 April 2012 Last updated at 10:36 GMT

A number of people have been killed in blasts in the north-western Syrian city of Idlib, activists and state TV say.

TV reports said two suicide bombings had killed eight people, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 20 had died in attacks targeting the security forces.

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The Observatory said the Idlib bombs had exploded next to the Air Force Intelligence headquarters and the Military Intelligence building, with most of the casualties security personnel.

State TV said "two terrorist suicide bombs" in Hananu Square on Carlton Street had killed eight and wounded dozens - both civilians and security personnel.

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1. What action will the UN (and the US) take against the opposition for its violations?

Even the FSA and the London exiles admit these acts weren't the regime's doing. Does only the violence of the government get recorded by the State Dept. and UN? What does the opposition have to do, acquire nuclear weapons, before its bombings get noticed at Foggy Bottom?

The one-sided nature of western condemnation of violence in Syria wholly undermines the credibility of the argument for "humanitarian" intervention.

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. the terrorists are getting more outside support

Several groups splintered off the so-called "Free Syria Army" (terrorist gang based in and backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia, not to be confused with the Syrian National Council, which is a political front group dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and extensively funded and armed by the Qatari dictator and US/NATO) when the alleged cease-fire was signed (or rather, armed gangs loosely affiliated with the group); many are backed directly by the wahhabi dictators in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Lebanese navy (which is usually something of a joke premise on most days) recently intercepted a ship from the NATO Republic of Libya with weapons intended for these armed gangs. It is so very strange (read: not strange at all) that this ship filled to the tits with weapons was able to set sail from the NATO Republic and escaped the attention of the US and Israeli navies; they usually keep a firm grip on what goes in and out of Lebanon, for fear of Hizbu'llah supply ships. It's so very strange (read: not strange at all) that this cargo destined for Syrian armed gangs didn't land on their radar.
Two armed gangs in particular are on the warpath with these bombings, one is a group called the Syrian Liberation Army, a salafist splinter group from the FSA, and Jabhat Al-Nusra (trans.: Victory Front), which is closely tied to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq (AQ-dominated resistance umbrella in Iraq) and armed gangs in the Ain al-Hilwah camp in Lebanon, and nominally receives orders from Sheikh Zawahiri.
They will probably be conducting more peaceful demonstrations for democracy such as is described above.