Crisis in Syrië # 76 Twee bomaanslagen

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 20:53 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Heb 'm alweer weggeklikt, maar dank voor de tip

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 20:56 schreef Peunage het volgende:

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Er stond niks bijzonders. Allemaal van het kaliber 'oh my god, wat erg'.

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 20:57 schreef Peunage het volgende:
Is vast al voorbij gekomen.
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iyad_elbaghdadi twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 20:59:12 It's not clear yet how much damage has been inflicted on #Syria state TV & radio HQ as a result of the twin bombs. reageer retweet

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 21:00 schreef sonnyspek het volgende:

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Niemand weet ook de impact nog.

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ItalianPolitics twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:02:11 This morning we hoped that someone at the Saudi intel HQ had not opted for resuming car bombs, do you remember? #Damascus reageer retweet

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AP twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 20:56:58 MORE: Syrian news agency says 2 car bombs explode near its building in Damascus; casualties yet unknown: http://t.co/P22fBWt6cY -SS reageer retweet

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BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen abducted six Red Cross workers and a Syrian Red Crescent volunteer after stopping their convoy early Sunday in northwestern Syria, a spokesman said, in the latest high-profile kidnapping in the country's civil war.

Simon Schorno, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus, said the assailants snatched the seven aid workers from their convoy near the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province around 11:30 a.m. local time (0830 GMT) as the team was returning to Damascus. He declined to provide the nationalities of the six ICRC employees, and said it was not clear who was behind the attack

Syria's state news agency, quoting an anonymous official, said the gunmen opened fire on the ICRC team's four vehicles before seizing the Red Cross workers. The news agency blamed "terrorists," a term the government uses to refer to those opposed to President Bashar Assad.

Schorno said the team of seven had been in the field since Oct. 10 to assess the medical situation in the area and to look at how to provide medical aid. He said the part of northern Syria where they were seized "by definition is a difficult area to go in," and the team was traveling with armed guards.

Much of the countryside in Idlib province, as well as the rest of northern Syria, has fallen over the past year into the hands of rebels, many of them Islamic extremists, and kidnappings have become rife, particularly of aid workers and foreign journalists.

Press freedom advocate Reporters without Borders calls Syria "the most dangerous country in the world" for journalists, with 25 reporters killed and at least 33 imprisoned since the anti-Assad uprising began in March 2011.

The conflict also has taken a toll on the aid community. The ICRC said in August that 22 Syrian Red Crescent volunteers have been killed in the country since the conflict began. Some were deliberately targeted, while others killed in crossfire, the group said.

Syria's bloody conflict has killed more than 100,000 people, forced more than 2 million Syrians to flee the country and caused untold suffering — psychological, emotional and physical — across the nation.

Outside Damascus, hundreds of civilians, some carried on stretchers, fled the besieged rebel-held suburb of Moadamiyeh on Saturday and Sunday following a temporary cease-fire in the area, activists and officials said.

It was not immediately clear who brokered the halt in fighting between rebels and government forces, but the temporary truce marked a rare case of coordination between the opposing sides in Syria's civil war.

"It's (been) an area of military operations for months, so to see this halt of fire, and to see this exodus of people, means there's a high level cooperation — not regular cooperation," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, the director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Neither Syrian officials nor activists close to rebels would discuss the coordination.

Syria's state news agency SANA said Saturday that 2,000 women and children left the suburb for temporary housing in the nearby suburb of Qudsaya.

An official with the Syrian Red Crescent, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, said another 1,000 people were evacuated Sunday. Those figures could not be independently verified.

For the thousands of people trapped in Moadamiyeh, the humanitarian situation has been deteriorating for months. In a bid to squeeze rebels there, Syrian forces blocked food and supplies from entering the district on the western edge of Damascus.

The suburb's residents have been hit hard. Activists from the Moadamiyeh Media Center reported six people died of starvation in September: two women and four children. One woman described how her 18-month-old daughter lost half her weight as she struggled to nourish her on boiled lentil water.

It's not clear how many people still live in the area. A Moadamiyeh Media Center activist who only identified himself as Mahmoud out of security concerns estimated some 12,000 people likely remain.

In Damascus itself, a double car bombing targeted the state TV building in central Umayyad Square, Syria's official news agency said. The blast caused minor damage to the building, the agency said.

State TV said several pedestrians were wounded in the attack, but there was no further immediate word on casualties. State TV aided video of the blazing wreckage of a car in front of the building.

Also Sunday, Islamic extremists blew up a shrine of a mystic Muslim saint, Issa Abdul-Qader al-Rafai, in the northern town of Busaira, the Observatory said. A shrine belonging to the mystic's brother was destroyed in September.

Islamic extremists, who form some of the most powerful armed factions in the rebel ranks, also have burnt churches, smashed statues, and desecrated shrines belonging to Islam's minority Muslim sects, and those belonging to mystic Sufi branches of Islam.

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 21:10 schreef sonnyspek het volgende:

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Door de oorlog is er te weinig eten.

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Nostalgichaseeb twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:07:37 #Assad gassed this #Damascus suburb - now he's blocking the delivery of any food or medicine for its survivors #Syriahttp://t.co/SNdmGVG8dE reageer retweet

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nadeemansary twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:07:09 RT @BBCLinaSinjab Children dying out of hunger in besieged rural #Damascus. This one just died in #Mouaddamieh #Syria http://t.co/2i3X2SqdRR reageer retweet

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MiraYanai twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:06:49 After chemical attack, #Damascus suburbs face starvation http://t.co/15PRY3MFT0 via @972mag reageer retweet

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MajdArar twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:12:15 Re State-TV explosion: Targeted side of the building houses studios; mostly material damage; fence intact. #Syria #Damascus reageer retweet

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troublejee twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:16:11 #Breaking Mortar fall in Baghdad street in #Damascus few mins ago https://t.co/H3wBNnEUW6 #Syria reageer retweet

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 21:17 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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troublejee twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:16:11 #Breaking Mortar fall in Baghdad street in #Damascus few mins ago https://t.co/H3wBNnEUW6 #Syria reageer retweet

Iemand die dat Facebook kan vertalen?

https://www.facebook.com/shahed.3ayan/posts/568346419899448

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 21:20 schreef Peunage het volgende:

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Het geluid van een explosie, samen met de geluiden van ambulances. Er wordt verondersteld dat het om een mortier gaat.

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Op zondag 13 oktober 2013 21:21 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Dank

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MohamedHalima85 twitterde op zondag 13-10-2013 om 21:19:08 #Syria Syrian TV, chemical inspectors’ hotel targeted in bomb attacks in #Damascus - report — #RT_News:... http://t.co/6CoYEwyWtf reageer retweet