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Report: Al-Qaida behind recent terror attacks in Syria
McClatchy cites U.S. officials as saying that
intelligence shows that recent bombings in Syria were carried out by
Al-Qaida's Iraq branch, on the orders of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

By
Haaretz


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Al-Qaida
Syria
Bashar Assad


Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq carried out two
recent terrorist attacks in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and was likely
responsible for the bombings in Aleppo on Friday that killed at least
28 people, McClatchy reported, citing U.S. officials.




U.S. intelligence reports were said to show
that the Syria bombings were ordered by al-Qaida leader Ayman
al-Zawahiri, seemingly verifying Syrian President Bashar Assad's
assertions of al-Qaida involvement in the uprising in Syria.

The
two Aleppo bombings on Friday were the worst attack to hit the
country's commercial hub during the revolt against the 42-year dynastic
rule by the family of President Bashar Assad.




No one claimed responsibility for the Aleppo
bombings but they took place as Assad's forces grow more ferocious in
operations to crush the uprising. Some opposition figures accused the
government of manipulating events to discredit them.




On December 23 and January 6, intelligence compounds in Damascus were hit by bomb blasts, killing a total of at least 70 people.




At the United Nations on Friday, Saudi Arabia circulated a draft resolution
backing an Arab peace plan for Syria among members of the UN General
Assembly, after a similar text was vetoed in the Security Council last
week by Russia and China, diplomats said.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-al-qaida-behind-recent-terror-attacks-in-syria-1.412300


Added: Feb-11-2012 
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Tags: Syria, Jihad, or, revolution
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  • The Great Con Job continues. The fact that the Syrian government feels the urge to shoot all it's citizens usually passes on LiveLeak without any questions. Maybe trying to say the Syrian Government is bombing itself would be one lie too many. If you want to know where many car bombs in Iraq really came from, now you know.

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    buttkracken (661.68)

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  • Rebels = Al Qaeda and the MB!
    Both are affiliated with each other, and both are causing all the shit in the ME......under the false guise of democracy and liberation.
    They are trying, and succeeding, in over running all the Arab countries in this region so they can install an Islamic caliphate.

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    Freejay (3852.36)  

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    • @Freejay it is the dummies in the west that are supporting this so called arab spring. the radical islamics would take over.

      i have been saying this for months now that the killings in syria were in the hands of the rebels(which we just found out were alqaeda). assad is just trying to protect his country from them and he is getting all this negative attention.

      Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
      kanns01 (792.26)  

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    • @kanns01
      Yes, it puzzles me why Obama is supporting this.
      I dont think its the American people that support this, as Obama had to bypass congress to send America into Libya.
      He also took the MB off the terrorist list and started publicly promoting them saying they are now moderate....which is an obvious lie.
      But then again, the guys a Muslim.


      Dont forget that Assad is killing his own people too....he is no saint either.

      Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
      Freejay (3852.36)  

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  • aka the Muslim brotherhood.

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    reggie001 (318.40)  

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  • Well, nothing new here...

    What did you expected? This Wahhabi/Salafi morons are poised to grab power once again - only, this time it's Syria.
    Basahar al-Assad has been warning about this for months - and it is obvious that the bulk of the rebellion in Syria is made of Wahhabi Islamists and their foreign sponsors and supporters, Al-Qaida included.

    Don't forget, al-Assad is a secular dictator enforcing a secular society in his country - something what Al-Qaida and those guys cannot stand ... More..

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    wrano (2567.48)  

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    • @wrano Enforcing a secular society with rockets and artillery shells? No thanks, too many moderates are being radicalized by this brutality and sucked into the opposition movement. The civil war is only blow back to an extremist repressive dictatorship. Time for the offensive to end and a political solution to demands for a more representative and just governance.

      Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
      GeoGig (79.88)

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    • @GeoGig

      Well, it's same shit then, since the "revolutionaries" are enforcing their view in the same way, just greased with Saudi money.

      Also, you mean representative governance -- They also said that in Libya and look now -- That country is in a state of full blown anarchy, except Benghazi and vicinity, where Islamists imposed their regime.

      Do you really believe that the sponsors of this revolution in Syria (i.e. Saudis and their Gulf satellites) are gonna let representative g More..

      Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
      wrano (2567.48)  

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    • @GeoGig
      Clearly you don't know a thing about Syria or the region.

      Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
      samjag (175.90)  

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    • @GeoGig You talk some shit fella or are you someone that wants the minorities ethnically cleansed from another cuntry in the middle east.

      Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
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    • @wrano Exactly, you are not going to get the "more representative and just governance" that GeoGig wants if the Saudis and their GCC cohorts are pouring their funds into the most extremist elements with the dual aim of neutralizing an Iranian ally and promoting Salafist principles.

      Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
      sakb (8327.10)  

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  • Typical Muslims....just love to kill...kill their own kind. What a fucked up religion...what a bunch of fucked up people.

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    Eddie Meeks (1750.70)

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  • Huriyaa, are you reading this?

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    the_MEK (685.00)  

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  • So today it is OK to believe what a US official says but tommorow it won't be if it isn't what we want to hear ? funny how that works

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    allank (323.20)

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  • Kiss imak ya Huriyaa

    Turkey harbors these extremists and has armed them and let them through its border to wreak havoc. Arabs from the gulf are funding them... all they are hoping for is to break the shiaa.

    The sunnis and the jews have always been close friends... not the shiaa and this is why they want to eliminate them

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
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  • If Al-Qaeda is involved then Syria has a much bigger problem than disaffected citizens.

    One major factor is that Al-Qaeda is a seriously fundamentalist Sunni organisation that hates Shia, Alawite, & Christian alike.

    On the positive side Al-Qaeda is proving to be a not very effective organisation. Its capabilities are limited by resources and by infiltration by intelligence sources. It's unlikely AQ can mount any significant amount of attacks in any given period. Each one ties up huge amoun More..

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    DEADBEEF (4170.36)  

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  • I think anyone with more than two brain cells saw this coming.

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    JP2011 (22.00)

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  • In the internecine world of Mid East politics, religion, ideology, sects and terrorism who the fack can be sure who is responsible for what.

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    Bialetti (363.68)  

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  • anyone would think they trained them .

    oh wait , they did...

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    OwenHiggins (1647.84)

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  • know this. these groups are working as a goon squad for global banking interests, to destroy sovereign nations. period. they are whittling down the isolated and unpopular to the west, and profiting from the conflicts. and rest assured, any country clinging bitterly to their sovereignty will find themselves under the cross-hairs themselves eventually.

    Posted Feb-11-2012 By 
    Yogsoggoth (817.40)

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  • DICTADOR ASSAD PROPAGANDA AL QAEDA ISN´T STRONG IN SYRIA THE PEOPLE IS FIGHTING ASSAD GET OFF THE DICTADOR!!!!

    Posted Mar-29-2012 By 
    samaan (3.80)  

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    • @samaan AQ has cells operating from the phillipines to pakistan to saudi arabia to kenya to spain to the USA.....

      Posted Mar-29-2012 By 
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