For residents of Syria's capital, the attack packed a jolt but didn't shake their resolve
by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
Apr 14, 2018
3 minutes
For one Damascus resident, the earliest indication of the tripartite air strikes on the Syrian capital was the sound.
"These ones had a loud roar ... louder than the ones we normally hear," said Nicholas Zahr, a Damascus-based analyst reached via Facebook early Saturday. "We're not used to the sound of these missiles."
Another resident, a Syrian government employee who was not authorized to speak publicly, said: "We woke up from the sound.... We thought it was thunder. We didn't get what was happening in
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