The alleged suicide car bombs exploded outside Syrian military intelligence agency buildings, killing 44 people and injuring 166.
[1] Government officials escorted the team to the scene of the explosions and reiterated their longtime claims that the uprising was not a popular one but the work of terrorists.
[3] When guards at a nearby General Security Directorate compound went to inspect the first blast, the driver of another vehicle rammed the main gates and detonated the bomb it was carrying.
[6] In January 2013, commentator Jamie Dettmer for website The Daily Beast stated that the Al-Nusra Front perpetrated the attack, and that the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center assumed it to be carried out by two female suicide bombers from Iraq.
[9] The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the main anti-regime paramilitary group, accused the government of perpetrating the attack to gain sympathy from the Arab League and its observers, who had arrived just before the bombings.