Friday, November 7, 2008

Syria Says Fatah al-Islam Group Behind Bombing

From Yahoo News/Reuters:

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria said on Thursday that an Islamist militant group active in neighboring Lebanon was behind a suicide car bomb attack that killed 17 people in Damascus in September.

State television showed what it said were 12 members of Fatah al-Islam, an al Qaeda-inspired group that first emerged in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, confessing that they had helped plan the September 27 attack on an intelligence complex in the Syrian capital.

Read more ....

No comments: