Islamists claim Syria bombs were to ‘avenge Sunnis’

The group said the attacks were “to avenge the people of Homs”
besieged by regime forces.

A video posted on jihadist forums showed footage of the destruction caused by
the January 6 car attack in Damascus that killed 26 people, and by a twin
suicide car bombing in Aleppo on February 10 that killed 28 people.

A double suicide car bombing targeting security installations in Damascus on
Saturday killed 27 people, the interior ministry said, a day before a
similar attack killed two more in Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub.

Syria blamed the bombings on “armed terrorist gangs” which it holds
responsible for the year-old bloodshed in the country that monitors say has
cost more than 9,100 lives in a brutal crackdown on dissent.

It has also pointed to an al-Qaeda role in the violence, while opposition
activists have accused the Damascus regime of stage-managing attacks such as
the car bombings to cause inter-sectarian strife.

According to the US-based monitors SITE Intelligence Group, the terror network
came out on January 23 with a message calling for armed struggle against the
regime.

Last month, US spy chief James Clapper said al-Qaeda’s branch in Iraq had
probably carried out the January and February suicide bombings in Syria,
having infiltrated rebel forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

The bomb attacks “had all the earmarks of an al-Qaeda-like attack,”
Clapper said at the time. “And so we believe al-Qaeda in Iraq is
extending its reach into Syria.”

al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has expressed support for Syrian rebels.

Source: AFP

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