The horror of the Syrian War knows no bounds. A continuous stream of war crimes have been committed by Free Syian Army rebels, Al Nusra jihadists, Syrian Army soldiers and the Shabaath militia working for the regime. The Sunni oriented foreign fighters have initiated many deadly car bombings in civilian areas of Aleppo and Damascus. Indiscriminate slaughter, summary executions, and torture have caused the displacement and suffering of millions of citizens.

Yesterday, another atrocity was perpetrated. A Sunni cleric who has supported the Assad government has been silenced forever. A suicide bomber entered a house of prayer where the cleric was surrounded by his students eager to learn and master wisdom from him and the Koran …

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Syrian president vows to rid country of extremists after suicide blast killed top Sunni cleric

DAMASCUS, Syria (WaPo) – In a warning to rebels battling to topple his regime, the Syrian leader pledged that his troops will “wipe out” and clean the country of the “forces of darkness.” Assad’s statement came as the Syrian Health Ministry raised the death toll from the Thursday night bombing in Damascus to 49, after seven of the wounded died overnight in hospital.

In the attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in the heart of the Syrian capital, killing Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti as he was giving a sermon. The blast also wounded 84 people.

It was one of the most stunning assassinations of the two-year civil war and marked a new low in the conflict: while suicide bombings blamed on Islamic extremists fighting with the rebels have become common, the latest attack was the first time a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a mosque. The grandson of the 84-year-old al-Buti was among those killed in the attack.

In the statement carried by Syria’s state SUNA news agency, Assad said al-Buti represented true Islam in facing “the forces of darkness and extremist” ideology.

    “Your blood and your grandson’s, as well as that of all the nation’s martyrs will not go in vain because
     we will continue to follow your thinking to wipe out their darkness and clear our country of them.”

In a speech earlier this month, al-Buti had said it was “a religious duty to protect the values, the land and the nation” of Syria. “There is no difference between the army and the rest of the nation,” he said at the time — a clear endorsement of Assad’s forces in their effort to crush the rebels.

Oppostion response

The president of the Syrian Opposition Council, Ahmed Moaz Al-Khatib, said the opposition “categorically condemn the assassination”.
“This is a crime by any measure that is completely rejected,” he told the AFP news agency from Cairo.

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