Israel Matzav

Hmmm....

Syrian sources close to RPS confirmed that four suicide car bombs exploded in Aleppo two days ago killing seven and injuring many more. The car bombs were detonated in the Ashrafieh area mostly populated by the Kurds. The Assad regime has successfully suppressed the information from reaching the outside world.

No one has taken responsibility for this new violence inside Syria.

Some experts claim it is the work of the regime itself as a warning shot across the bow against any uprising by the Kurds à la Tunisia. They fuel their argument with the fact that the regime in Damascus has always claimed that without Assad, Syria will become another Iraq. These explosions were intended to show the people in Syria willing to rise that such an outcome will bring death and destruction the way Assad administered against the innocent in Iraq.

On the other hand, some analysts believe that the suicide car bombs, an Assad specialty, used with abandon in Iraq, may have come home to haunt the regime from the very same people Assad sent to Iraq to haunt others. They chose this moment and the Kurds to send two signals: The Assad regime is not acceptable nor are any separatist ideas often expressed by the oppressed Kurds.

It also wanted to demonstrate that the Assad regime is weak and that the people of Aleppo can rise. Sending military reinforcements to Aleppo is counterproductive to the regime because the majority of the foot soldiers in the Syrian army are Sunni Muslims. Turning their guns on Damascus is the last thing Assad can afford in a post Tunisia atmosphere. RPS is told that Syrians are stunned how little it took to send the president of Tunisia fleeing to Saudi Arabia.

Labels: Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, car bombs, Kurds

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:13 AM