Damascus (AFP) – Two rockets struck the Russian embassy compound in Damascus on Tuesday sparking panic as several hundred people gathered to express their support for Moscow’s air war in Syria, AFP journalists said.
Some 300 people had begun to gather for a demonstration backing Russia’s recent intervention in Syria when the rockets crashed into the embassy compound in the Mazraa neighbourhood of the capital, the journalists at the scene said.
There was widespread panic among the demonstrators, who moments earlier had been waving Russian flags and holding up large photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Quoted by Russian news agency Interfax, senior embassy official Eldar Kurbanov said: “Two rockets hit embassy territory at 10:15 am. No one was killed or wounded.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the rockets were fired from the eastern edges of the capital, where Islamist rebels are entrenched.
The Russian embassy has been the target of rocket attacks before.
On September 21, just nine days before it began its air war in Syria, Moscow demanded “concrete action” after a shell hit the embassy’s compound in Damascus.
In May, one person was killed by mortar rounds that landed nearby. Three were hurt when mortar rounds landed inside the compound in April.
Dam those Palestinians rockets!
Okay.. It looks like we’re starting an explosion war with Russia similar to what we have going with China.
Obama is trying his hardest to start WW3, (at the Rothschild’s behest, of course), and the result will be a crushing defeat of American forces, followed by an invasion of this country, possibly by both Russian and Chinese troops to disarm us, and take control of the USA.
We’re doomed as a nation unless the American people stand up and fight these bastards off….. and as a reminder, neither the Russians or the Chinese have any incentive to keep any of us alive. We won’t fare as well as the Germans did after WW2; Depopulation and the destruction of freedom are the goals here. They won’t let anyone live who even remembers what the Bill of Rights was.
Count on being killed if you’re an America….unless, of course, we kick their goddamn asses out of here.
“Some 300 people had begun to gather for a demonstration backing Russia’s recent intervention in Syria when the rockets crashed into the embassy compound in the Mazraa neighbourhood of the capital,..”
Right after they just got hammered by the Russians?
“… the rockets were fired from the eastern edges of the capital, where Islamist rebels are entrenched.”
Go figure.