Car Bomb Attack Devastates Popular Shopping District In Damascus

In this Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 photo, A Syrian civilian lies in the street in pain with a shot to his stomach as he tries to escape the line-of-fire after he was targeted by a Syrian army sniper while walking near the frontline in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. <AP Photo/Narciso Contreras>

A Syrian man looks at a damaged car at the site after a car bomb attack in Bab Touma neighborhood, a popular shopping district largely inhabited by Syria’s Christian minority in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. A taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in the Syrian capital Sunday, killing at least 13 people even as the U.N. envoy to the nation’s crisis was visiting Damascus to push his call for a cease-fire in talks with President Bashar Assad. The SANA state news agency said tens of people were wounded. <AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi>

Syrians stand near damaged cars at the site after a car bomb attack in Bab Touma neighborhood, a popular shopping district largely inhabited by Syria’s Christian minority in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. <AP Photo/SANA>