Brittany Brooks
Syria blog #7
10/24/13
11:00 am
On Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with
propane tanks at a crowded military check point in central Syria. The bomb
killed more than 30 people, most of them being civilians. This was the second
attack in two days that has been associated with Al Qaeda. The attack ignited
dozens of cars and sent up a column of smoke visible for miles around. They
believe that Nursa Front was responsible for the attack. He is one of the two
Qaeda affiliates fighting alongside the rebels that want to topple President
Bashar as-Assad. This bombing followed a similar attack that killed 16 soldiers
east of Damascus just the day before. They believe that there is an increasing
resilience on suicide attacks to try to break the government strongholds that
the rebels are unable to take be conventional means. With the rise of
extremists groups it is becoming more and more difficult to put an end to the
civil war happening in Syria. Already more than 100,000 people have killed in
Syria in the past two and half years of conflict. Many countries around the
world are still pushing for peace talks to be held regarding Syria.
How is this constant war and terror ever going to come to
an end in Syria at the fast rate that it is still raising? The country is already in a civil war and now
there is a rise in terrorist attacks associated with Al Qaeda. What is going to
be done to out an end to this constant terror? The United Nations has
intervened with the chemical weapons and civil war issues but it does not seem
as though they have intervened with these terrorist attacks yet. Do they have a
plan to bring down Al Qaeda and put a stop to all of this terror happening
within Syria? The big question seems to be, will Syria ever be a peaceful
nation again or will their citizens have to fear for the rest of their lives?
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