car bomb explosion in Damascus

Medaad, Syria: Chilling Eyewitness Blogger Account on Damascus Explosion, Global Voices (translation by Amira Al Hussaini). Original at Medaad (Arabic). Medaad blogged:

This morning, on September 27, 2008, a huge explosion shook the Syrian capital Damascus, about 200 metres away from my car which I was riding from the Sayida Zainab area towards Damascus. That was about 20 minutes ago. . . .