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Explosion in Syrian city of Homs kills 40: monitoring group
1 of 5. A still image taken from video posted on the Internet by opposition activists shows what they say is a ball of fire rising after an explosion in the central Syrian city of Homs on August 1, 2013.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad said.
The explosion occurred in the south-eastern district of Wadi al-Dhahab, which the army has taken over, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The group has a network of sources in the opposition and state security forces.
The Observatory said the casualties were soldiers and civilians and that some of the wounded were in a critical condition.
(Reporting by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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Yet another act of terror by the axis of evil the NATO, Turks and Sunni Arabs.
In any case, the US and NATO are supporting al Qaeda and other Sunni islamic insurgents in the current Syrian Civil War. Another war against Israel will follow a rebel victory. The insurgents will use growing infiltration of Israel and surrounding areas to strike the Israelis. The strategy will be to bleed the Israeli economy and its population until the country is bankrupt and its people are forced to live most of their lives in concrete bunkers. An Assad victory will restore the long truce between Syria and Israel.








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