Syria says pipeline blown up by rebel saboteurs

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

A Syrian pipeline carrying oil from the east of the country to a vital refinery in Homs was blown up Thursday in what the official news agency SANA said was an act of sabotage by an armed terrorist group.

Opposition activists said flames and clouds of thick black smoke were seen at the site of the explosion in a suburb of the city, the epicenter of popular unrest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that began in March.

"This is the main pipeline that feeds the Homs refinery," said Rami Abdulrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The activist network also reported seven people killed in Homs Thursday by snipers and in "random" shootings.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-syria-idUSTRE7B51KB20111208

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[Crowman1979]

1. Got to cut off Bashar al-Assad weapons funding somehow.

Very little of the revenue goes to the people anyway.