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SYRIA-TURKEY CRISIS UPDATES : Almost 150 killed as Syria truce collapses, Meanwhile US Deploys Troops & 70 Nuclear Bombs in Turkey
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[quote:DoomneT:MV8yMDEzMDYxXzMzODUwMzUyXzEwQTEwRTY5] [b][color=red]Powerful blast injures two in western Damascus[/color][/b] [b]A powerful blast targeting the military justice building in Damascus has injured two people. [/b] [i]The blast, described as “terrorist attack” by Syrian state television, happened in front of the Syrian military justice building, which is close to the Ministry of Higher Education, in the western Damascus Mazzeh district on Thursday evening. Earlier in the day, "armed terrorists" opened fire on a bus transporting Syrian workers near the Syrian border with Lebanon, killing eight people. Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Damascus says outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the driving factors behind the unrest and deadly violence, but the opposition and the West accuse security forces of being behind the killings. Tensions have been running high between Syria and Turkey, with Damascus accusing Turkey along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar of backing deadly insurgency that has claimed the lives of many Syrians, including security and Army personnel.[/i] http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/11/266167/2-injured-in-western-damascus-blast/ [/quote]
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The United States military has secretly sent a task force of more than 150 planners and other specialists to Jordan
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To help the armed forces there handle a flood of Syrian refugees, prepare for the possibility that Syria will lose control of its chemical weapons and be positioned should the turmoil in Syria expand into a wider conflict.
The task force, which has been led by a senior American officer, is based at a Jordanian military training center built into an old rock quarry north of Amman. It is now largely focused on helping Jordanians handle the estimated 180,000 Syrian refugees who have crossed the border and are severely straining the country’s resources.
American officials familiar with the operation said the mission also includes drawing up plans to try to insulate Jordan, an important American ally in the region, from the upheaval in Syria and to avoid the kind of clashes now occurring along the border of Syria and Turkey.
The officials said the idea of establishing a buffer zone between Syria and Jordan — which would be enforced by Jordanian forces on the Syrian side of the border and supported politically and perhaps logistically by the United States — had been discussed. But at this point the buffer is only a contingency.
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