Syria : 55 killed in suicide attacks, 400 wounded

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Syrian activists call for protests after 55 killed in suicide attacks
Syrian activists have called for mass anti-regime demonstrations in Damascus after at least 55 people were killed and nearly 400 hundred wounded by twin suicide attacks.

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
2:37PM BST 10 May 2012

The US embassy in Beirut called the double bombing, the deadliest attacks in the capital since the uprising against Bashar al-Assad began 14 months, "reprehensive and unacceptable".

"Residents of Damascus, rise up, liberate your city from this regime of killers," said the The Syrian Revolution 2011 activist group on Facebook.

"The one that destroyed Homs and its residents with tanks and shells will not hesitate to destroy Damascus and to kill its residents with explosions," the message added. ...

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Syria conflict: Damascus bomb increases pressure on UN
By Shashank Joshi Associate fellow, Royal United Services Institute
10 May 2012 Last updated at 10:58 ET

The bombings that tore through Damascus on Thursday morning were the sixth terrorist attack to have struck the city since December.

Five of those attacks have come in the last two months, further complicating the tenuous, and perhaps illusory, ceasefire and peace plan overseen by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Syria's uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy protest movement over a year ago. Under the pressure of a brutal government crackdown, parts of that movement morphed into an insurgency.

Now, one danger is that the protest movement and the armed insurgency both become overtaken by a campaign of terrorist violence designed to sow chaos and accelerate Syria's political disintegration....

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