Twin car bombs strike Damascus suburb; kill 20

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian state-run media say two car bombs have exploded in a Damascus suburb, inflicting several casualties.

The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights says 20 people were killed in the blasts. The activist group relies on reports from the ground.

The SANA state news agency says the Wednesday morning explosions targeted Damascus' eastern Jaramana suburb, which is mostly populated by Christians and Druse.

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Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20121128/DA2QT0A00.html

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In this Thursday, June 7, 2012 file photo, Free Syrian Army members raise their weapons during a training session on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria. A dark realization is spreading across north Syria that despite 20 months of violence and recent rebel gains, an end to the war to topple President Bashar Assad is nowhere in sight. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Kick (nt)

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Al Jazeera says the death toll is now at 54.

[arewenotdemo]

3. Freedom fighters at work.

And Assad would have us believe they're terrorists!

Fortunately, we have intrepid embedded American journalists on the ground to bring us the truth.

[David__77]

4. The West is supporting the Syrian Taliban against the secular modernists.

It is so sad for Syria that it is the target of international terror.