Guardian: Syria’s Blasts Cause People to Rally around Al-Assad
Speaking on TV, another man said: "Only dogs and pigs would do this. It's haram [forbidden]." Others blamed "Israel".
Under the title, "Syrian bomb attacks cause people to rally around Bashar al-Assad's regime," the British famous "Guardian" daily confirmed that Friday's blast showed Syrians' support for their president.
"If you looked carefully, in the folds of a plastic bin bag, you could make out part of a human head, a mass of shredded flesh and innards, and two bare feet," the report mentioned.
The paper also clarified "that was all that was left of the suicide bomber blamed by Syria's government for committing mass murder in Damascus on Friday when
the Guardian reached the scene."
"The attack triggered furious condemnation from the regime and loud demonstrations of support for al- Assad," Ian Black reported from Damascus mentioning the following witnesses:
"This is Syrian blood," one security official screamed for the cameras as he waved a surgical glove oozing with gore. "This is the crime of the Arab League."
The bomber targeted a police station next to an elementary school and a busy main road, with a mosque nearby and shops all around. The device was detonated at a traffic light under a concrete flyover, splattering blood high above, shattering windows and destroying several police cars.
Demonstrators, some waving flags, came in their hundreds to shout slogans, chanting "the people want Bashar al-Assad" and "Allah, Syria, Bashar, and that's it."
"I heard the explosion," screamed a distraught Jamila Qabalan, a middle-aged woman who lives nearby. "What is happening in this country? Traitors are spilling Syrian blood and we are afraid."
Information ministry officials were unable to provide the names of the dead and injured or to say in which hospitals they were being treated. But Sana showed horrific pictures of dead and wounded on its website.
Ahmad Asi, a reserve policeman from Aleppo, had just got off one of the buses. "I was crossing the road and was going to have breakfast. I heard the explosion," he said. He survived with a cut to the bridge of his nose but his friend Haydar al-Hussain, another reservist, was killed.
Beyond their fury, al-Assad supporters suggested that the incident would only harden the government's resolve. "I support al-Assad because he is right," insisted Abu Ja'afar. "Yes, things can change in Syria, through politics and by dialogue, but not by bombing. It's shameful. Let these people go and blow themselves up in "Israel", not here."
Source: Guardian, Edited by moqawama.org
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