Brent Sadleris a former CNN Senior International Correspondent... (wikipedia)
Belgrade is now in darkness for as far as the eye can see.
Officials were incredulous at the news. He was the lynchpin of the Syrian security apparatus for more than two decades, and was an important right-man both for the current president and his father, Hafez Assad.
This is a tremendously large crowd, the size of which is unprecedented in Lebanon's modern history, ... It is truly massive and cannot be ignored.
I'm now seeing many detonations, ... There's one huge fireball nearby and I can see several plumes of smoke from still other detonations.
At least the top two stories are ablaze, and the bottom three or four stories ablaze. And in the middle, between the two sets of flames, lights are still burning.
There was a tremendous explosion, ... I can confirm that the top floor, the roof of that building where this array of antennas was situated, has been attacked.
There was not one checkpoint from the southern part of Mosul all the way down to Tikrit for about three hours of driving,
I can see a lot of debris, a lot of rubble in what is a civilian area. There is a considerable amount of damage.
I can see body parts inside the crushed rubble, some of them are covered by green tarpaulins.