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Another Car Bomb blast rocks the second syrian city of Aleppo 18.03.2012

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Syria , Capital Damascus hit by Car Bomb Attacks, at Least 27 Dead 17.03.2012

Syrian state television says at least 27 people were killed and 97 wounded in twin car bomb blasts that hit intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital on Saturday.

State TV, citing the health minister, said further body parts had also been found, meaning the toll could rise.

A Syrian official said there were reports of a third blast targeting a military bus at the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, but there were no details. He asked that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

The bombings were the latest in a string of large-scale suicide attacks targeting the Syrian regime's military installations. The blasts have killed dozens of people since late December.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The government has blamed the explosions on "terrorist forces" that it claims are behind the revolt against President Bashar Assad.

Top U.S. intelligence officials have also pointed to al-Qaida in Iraq as the likely culprit behind previous bombings, raising the possibility its fighters are infiltrating across the border to take advantage of the turmoil. Al-Qaida's leader called for Assad's ouster in February.

A suspected al-Qaida presence creates new obstacles for the U.S., its Western allies and Arab states trying to figure out a way to help push Assad from power, and may also rally Syrian religious minorities, fearful of Sunni radicalism, to get behind the regime.

The Syrian opposition has denied any link to al-Qaida and accuses forces loyal to the government of being behind the bombings to tarnish the uprising.

According to the state-run news agency, SANA, preliminary information indicated two blasts were caused by car bombs that hit the aviation intelligence department and the criminal security department at around 7:30 a.m local time. Shooting broke out soon after the blast and sent residents and others who had gathered in the area fleeing, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.

SANA posted gruesome photographs of the scene Saturday, with mangled and charred corpses, bloodstains on the streets and twisted steel.

"All our windows and doors are blown out," said Majed Seibiyah, 29, who lives in the area. "I was sleeping when I heard a sound like an earthquake. I didn't grasp what was happening until I hear screaming in the street."

The Syrian government denies there is a popular will behind the uprising, saying foreign extremists and gangs are trying to destroy the country. But his opponents deny that and say an increasingly active rebel force has been driven to take up arms because the government used tanks, snipers and machine guns to crush peaceful protests.

The U.N. estimates that more that 8,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad began last MarchSyrian state television says at least 27 people were killed and 97 wounded in twin car... more