MrGuerrillaXL: Great Scholar, Dr. Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti martyred in a terrorist suicide explosion in al-Eman Mosque in Damascus
RT: A blast ripped through a mosque in the Syrian capital, killing a prominent pro-government Sunni cleric Sheikh Mohammed Said Ramadan al-Bouti. At least 42 people have died and 84 more were wounded in the attack.
“Senior cleric Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti was martyred in a terrorist suicide attack at the Iman Mosque in Mazraa in Damascus," Syrian State TV said.
Syria's SANA news agency reports that the scholar's grandson was also killed in the bombing.
Sirens could be heard echoing through the capital as the scene of the blast was cordoned off by the military. TV footage revealed a chaotic scene of eviscerated bodies with severed limbs strewn across the blood-stained floor of the mosque.
RT Arabic’s correspondent Kamel Saqv, who is in Damascus, said that elementary courses on Islam were being conducted at the time of the attack. Many of the dead are believed to be students, he said.
An official source told Syrian State TV that the assailant intended to blow himself up while the students were listening to prayer.
Local residents contacted by Reuters said they initially believed the explosion was caused when a mortar shell hit a nearby political office.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that rebel fighters were battling with government forces in the area and that mortars had been fired.
An
image made available by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 21,
2013 shows carpeted floor covered with blood inside of the Iman Mosque
in the Mazraa neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Damas, after a suicide
attack on March 21, 2013 (AFP Photo / SANA)
Syrian TV had broadcast his sermons live every week from mosques around Damascus and he also hosted his own religious TV program. His death has been viewed as a serious blow to the government, which is fighting a primarily Sunni-led insurgency.
“The mainstream media will have difficulty” in reporting about this attack, because this was a pro-Assad Sunni cleric, believes, RT Contributor Afshin Rattansi.
“How is it that the Anglo-French-backed, or what should we call them, rebels – insurgents or are they terrorists – are going around killing Sunni clerics in a mosque in Damascus. Perhaps, the [mainstream media] will not be reporting about it at all because it’s so against their idea of sectarianizing Syria between Shia’s and Sunnis,” he observed.
Rattansi also expressed hope that in the context of today’s bombing, “the whole idea of a NATO-backed instability creation in Syria, and three million displaced people in Syria, people within the State Department in Washington will realize that funding must stop for these insurgent groups.”
An image made available by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March
21, 2013 shows remains and the carpeted floor covered with blood inside
of the Iman Mosque in the Mazraa neighbourhood of the Syrian capital
Damas, after a suicide attack on March 21, 2013 (AFP Photo / SANA)
An
image made available by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 21,
2013 shows a man being treated after he was injured in a suicide attack
at the Iman Mosque in the Mazraa neighbourhood of the Syrian capital
Damas on March 21, 2013 (AFP Photo / SANA)
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