Car bomb kills 18 near Syria's capital; rebels say air base captured
Source: Los Angeles Times
ANTAKYA, Turkey – Syrian rebels say they have seized a military air base in Aleppo province, almost a year after they laid siege to the facility, one of the last remaining government holdouts in the northern Syria province.
The final thrust, they said, was kicked off by two suicide bombers - foreign fighters with the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham – who attacked loyalist soldiers with explosives-laden armored vehicles. A 12-hour firefight ensued and by nightfall Monday, rebel fighters from the Islamist group as well as several Free Syrian Army brigades claimed full control over the airport.
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On Tuesday, a powerful car bomb exploded in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, killing 18 people and injuring 56 others, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Read more: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/06/world/la-fg-wn-syrian-rebels-claim-major-victory-20130806
foreign fighters with the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
THIS is who the United States would be supporting by going to war against Syria. In 12 short years, the U.S. would have come full circle to the point of launching a war on behalf of those who attacked our country on 9/11.
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the more they are the same.
Why the hell are we even contemplating getting involved in what is clearly a civil war? All we'll do is make it worse and possibly kick off a ME war engulfing the whole region.
ya that'll show 'em 4 shur :
oh and those folks who died in the car bomb, well shirley they were Assad supporters so that's good, unless of course it can be pinned on Assad, Kerry will let us no, in which case they are victims of the new Hitler (Assad) 
