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Friday, January 18, 2013

Syria's Aleppo University .... a pile of 87 young bodies in the crumbled concrete and steel


The regime is blaming the terrorist gangs rampaging in Syria and the terrorists and their supporters  are blaming the regime. Spare a moment and let a minor thought and image run through you of  87 pairs of parents mourning for their children killed in the explosions, university students who were sitting for the first day of  their exams.

I wonder why Assad's regime would choose to bomb an university which was already within their controlled territory.  On the other hand, we know wahhabis and salafis don't like universities and schools unless they are madrasas.



At least 87 people have been killed and more than 160 injured in two rocket explosions at the University of Aleppo in Syria’s largest city on Tuesday, city officials reported.
According to a Syrian official quoted by SANA, two rocket shells were fired at the university complex.
Aleppo’s governor Mohammed Wahid Akkad called the rocket strikes a “terrorist attack that targeted students on their first day of exams.”
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed two explosions hit the university. The second blast may have been caused by a burning car, though there has been no independent confirmation, Reuters reports.

The university is located in a government-controlled territory.

Aleppo is Syria's largest city and has been fiercely contested between government forces and rebel fighters, who have battled to a stalemate in the strategically important region.
Rebels have previously previously carried out bomb attacks against government targets in the city.....

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