Assad’s regime
carried out deadly Damascus bombings: leaked files
Newly-leaked
Syrian classified files obtained by Al Arabiya revealed that the regime of
President Bashar al-Assad was behind deadly May 10 bombings in Damascus. (Al
Arabiya)
| by Al Arabiya
( September 30,
2012, UAE, Sri Lanka Guardian) The regime of President Bashar al-Assad was
behind a pair of car bomb attacks which killed 55 people outside a military
intelligence complex in the Qazzaz area of Damascus on May 10, newly-leaked
documents obtained by Al Arabiya reveal.
The documents
are part of some highly-classified Syrian security files obtained by Al Arabiya
from opposition sources. The channel said that it has verified and
authenticated hundreds of these documents and that it has decided to disclose
ones with substantial news value and political relevance.
THE QAZZAZ
BOMBINGS
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A presidential order to
Saqr Mannon to carry out the Qazzaz bombing in “the absence of the media.” (Al
Arabiya)
Following the
twin-bombing in the Qazzaz neighbourhood of the capital Damascus, Syria’s
foreign ministry said the attacks were a sign that the country was facing foreign-backed
terrorism. The Arab League, on the other hand, stated that the attack was
intended to undermine a U.N. monitoring mission in the country led then by
special envoy Kofi Annan.
However, the
leaked documents implicates the Syrian regime in the deadly Qazzaz explosions.
In a document
sent from the presidential palace on May 8, two days before the fatal bombs,
Maj. Gen. Dhu al-Himma Shalish, head of the Special Security of the Syrian
president, addressed Saqr Mannon, head of the Air Force Intelligence
Branch-291, telling him of the need to convince the international public
opinion of the presence of terrorist groups in the country.
Shalish said
that his orders follow instructions of the Joint Command, possibly in reference
to Iran, Russia and the Syrian regime.
Shalish
followed-up his commands by describing to Mannon the needed steps for the
upcoming explosion.
The major
general indicated that he was acting by the direct orders of Syrian President
Bashar Al-Assad.
THE
"SACRIFICE"
An order from Saqr Mannon,
in the Army and Air Force headquarters, to Suhail Hassan, a colonel in the
Syrian Air Force Intelligence, to carry out the Qazzaz explosion. (Al Arabiya)
A second leaked
document, this time signed by Saqr Mannon and sent from the Army and Air Force
headquarters, ordered Suhail Hassan, a colonel in the Syrian Air Force
Intelligence, to apparently carry out the Qazzaz explosion, and to report back
once the mission is accomplished.
According to the
leaked files, Assad sacrificed hundreds of citizens and low-ranking security
forces in order to convince international public opinion that terrorists have
infiltrated the Syrian territory and started conducting mortal operations.
A narrative the
regime keeps pushing forward since the start of the Syrian revolution in Mars
2011.
Al Arabiya's
exclusive series on the newly-leaked security documents continues tomorrow.
