Daniel McAdams writes:
In keeping with recent
practice of bombing
the diplomatic facilities
which oppose their struggle to overthrow the Syria government, the insurgents
in Syria have hit
the Vatican Embassy with a mortar shell today.
Targeting the Vatican
embassy was likely no accident. As the US was on the verge of bombing Syria in
late-August, the pope held
a peace vigil at the Vatican attended by more than 100,000. As support for
a US attack sagged among the American public and in Congress, this Vatican
effort to head off a US war on behalf of the anti-Assad fighters was certainly
of great significance. It may have been a deciding factor.
The US-backed
insurgents have specifically targeted Christians and their churches, most
recently targeting Christians in the town of Sadad for torture
and slaughter. According to a report
yesterday:
Inhabitants
of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the largely Syrian Orthodox town when rebels
attacked last month, are now returning home to discover the scale of
atrocities, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed,
including two teenage boys, their mother and three of their grandparents who
were thrown down a well.
The
reports, sent by Church leaders to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need
(ACN), describe how, in this ancient Christian town mentioned in the Bible
(Ezekiel), vulnerable people unable to escape, including the elderly, disabled,
women and children, were subjected to torture, such as strangulation.
Church
sources say 30 bodies were found in two separate mass graves.
The embassy bombing
today was accompanied by several other insurgent attacks on civilians and
government officials today, including in government-held Sweida, where
eight more were killed.
Will the US government
and the Obama Administration condemn this attack? If so, will they blame it on
just a few bad eggs as they have done countless times in the past?
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