Attacks in Syria Kill Top Defense Ministers

[Correction]

AJ Has the story as well as video from the streets

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...355415804.html

The defense minister was Bashar al-Assad's brother in law.

Also killed were Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar and General Hassan Turkmani, a former defence minister and currently Syria's deputy vice president, who later died of his injuries,

BBC's live blog has some useful tidbits.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18887190

Russia still won't back UN Sanctions. Lot of people using the words 'civil war.'

Edit: Al Jazeera's Live Blog: http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153

Syria 2 minutes ago

Local Coordination Committee reports Sounds of two massive explosions heard in Damascus followed by shelling with heavy-graded weaponry.

Artillery fire in the heart of the capital.

[Synbios]

Incoming new article about 200+ people killed in some small town in Syria.

[Correction]

200 is pretty conservative. I'm pretty sure al-Assad kills 200 people before he's gotten out of bed in a good mood.

[Correction]

Street battles in Damascus

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middl...119864626.html

Low quality streams from AJ's arabic youtube stream

http://www.youtube.com/user/aljazeer...e=results_main

[BadKarma]

Aw shucks.