Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida-style group, released a statement on May 11, 2012 claiming responsability for the double Damascus blasts that occured on May 10. The PR states that these bombings are in response to the unjust aggression by the regime against the people. Jabhat al-Nusra said that the double bombings targeted the headquarters of the military establishment located in revolutiont street, in the center of Damascus. It issued a direct threat to all military and security headquarters to take these bombings as a lesson and will face the same outcome if they are invovled in repression and brutality against the Syrian people.