Severe blow dealt to the Syrian regime

Assad's regime is realizing  that not only his outer circle but his inner core of security guards, generals and soldiers are more willing to sacrifice their lives for those 72 virgins than to live in Syria straddled to just one wife as is the norm in present day Syria unlike the Sunni countries surrounding it.  


....State TV said President Assad's brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, and Gen Dawoud Rajha, the defence minister were victims of a blast during a high level security meeting. The Interior minister was also injured.

Gen Shawkat was the deputy defense minister and was among the most feared figures in Assad's inner circle. He is married to Assad's elder sister, Bushra.

Reports said the officials had been killed by a bodyguard in a suicide bombing in the capital of Syria but other reports said a device was placed within the building. A "terrorist bomb" which exploded at a national security building in Damascus during a meeting of ministers and security officials wounded several people, some of them critically, state television said.........