A Syrian reader sent me this: "I've spoken to eyewitnesses who saw the fighter plane swooping just before
the explosions,from a good vantage point, so i don't think this story is
bullshit.
You may be wondering why the govt. would bomb an area under their control.
It may be because so many students are from the surrounding countryside (e.g.
Idlib) and this was the army's way of telling them that nowhere is safe, a kind
of massive 'fuck you'. If you had seen what happened to the students at the
hands of the shabbiha, and the bombing of bakeries, then you might appreciate
how out of control the military is. The bombing was near the dorms opposite the
Architecture department. The dorms were already gutted by the shabbiha and the
people in them were probably refugees and not students.
P.s. there was another airstrike yesterday near the muhafaza area which is
definitely under regime control. They hit two residential buildings on a street
a few minutes walk from the Russian embassy. No one I spoke to knows why."
