My Way News : "DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Gunmen attacked a former United Nations office in a diplomatic quarter of Damascus, setting off a battle with police that pelted nearby buildings with bullets and grenades.
The fighting killed two attackers, a policeman and a civilian, the government said.
Syria has not seen such violence since the 1980s, when the government put down an insurgency by Islamic militants.
>>>Syria has been on the U.S. State Department's list of terror-sponsoring nations for its support of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah that attack Israel. Syria, though, says the anti-Israeli groups are not terrorist, and that it has an interest in fighting Islamic extremist groups like al-Qaida.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Syria's hard-line government fought a fierce war with Islamic fundamentalists of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was blamed for a 1980 assassination attempt on President Hafez Assad, the country's authoritarian leader who died from natural causes in 2000. Assad was succeeded by his son, Bashar Assad.
In 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood staged a rebellion in the northern province of Hama. During the clashes, Syrian forces razed much of the city, killing as many as 10,000 people and finally crushing the Brotherhood after a five-year war."
This is very interesting. I wonder if Syria is perhaps going along with the US more than we know, and rounding up Islamic terrorists, and this is their punishment, or if it was more of an anti-regime attack due to the political change in Iraq, and the government is trying to play down any whiff of rebellion.
The fighting killed two attackers, a policeman and a civilian, the government said.
Syria has not seen such violence since the 1980s, when the government put down an insurgency by Islamic militants.
>>>Syria has been on the U.S. State Department's list of terror-sponsoring nations for its support of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah that attack Israel. Syria, though, says the anti-Israeli groups are not terrorist, and that it has an interest in fighting Islamic extremist groups like al-Qaida.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Syria's hard-line government fought a fierce war with Islamic fundamentalists of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was blamed for a 1980 assassination attempt on President Hafez Assad, the country's authoritarian leader who died from natural causes in 2000. Assad was succeeded by his son, Bashar Assad.
In 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood staged a rebellion in the northern province of Hama. During the clashes, Syrian forces razed much of the city, killing as many as 10,000 people and finally crushing the Brotherhood after a five-year war."
This is very interesting. I wonder if Syria is perhaps going along with the US more than we know, and rounding up Islamic terrorists, and this is their punishment, or if it was more of an anti-regime attack due to the political change in Iraq, and the government is trying to play down any whiff of rebellion.
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