Holy Warriors show their strength in Damascus

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Guards 'killed' in Syrian military HQ blast
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Rebels say dozens dead while Syrian military claims guards only wounded and top brass safe.
Syrian state television is reporting that four security guards have been killed in two explosions near the Damascus general headquarters of Syria's army.

Wednesday's attack engulfed at least two floors of the building in flames and left 14 people injured.

Omran al-Zoubi, information minister, said the improvised explosive devices, one of which may have been placed inside the headquarters building itself, exploded minutes before 7am on Wednesday, shattering the windows of nearby buildings in the heavily guarded Umayyad Square district.

Rebel spokesmen for the Free Syrian Army released a statement claiming responsibility and saying that dozens had been killed, but Zoubi said the bombings caused "only material damage".

"I would like to assure everyone that all our military comrades at the ministry of defence and the army general staff are well and unharmed," he said.

"Security forces [are] chasing armed terrorists in the area … everything is normal … the news is false. Yes, it’s a terrorist act near an important location building, but they failed to achieve their goal."

A military source quoted by state television said that the attack involved one car bomb and one improvised explosive device. They denied any casualties among the army leadership.

Many roads in the centre of Damascus were blocked, and ambulances rushed to the scene, residents said.

They reported hours of gunfire following the incident.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the UK-based activist organisation, said that fighting erupted inside the general command compound after the explosions.

"I was woken up at four minutes to seven by the first loud explosion. Five or six minutes later there was a second," one resident told the Reuters news agency.

"We're used to the sound of artillery but these were very big - bigger than usual. I can hear gunfire still."

Al Jazeera's Rula Amin, reporting from neighbouring Lebanon, said even if senior military officials were not harmed "it is still an achievement for the rebels to come so close" to such an important strategic location in the Syrian capital.

The area is also near Syrian television and only kilometres from the residence of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president.

Our correspondent said the opposition fighters also referred to aid from people within the ranks of the army who have yet to officially defect, but who "in their hearts are with the rebels".




This attack is meant to avenge the massacre of thousand children. The infidel government will not survive.