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Syrian Mufti Warns of Lebanese, Syrian Suicide Bombers if West Attacks Syria
[An Nahar] Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, the country's highest religious authority, has warned Europe, the United States and Israel of suicide kabooms if they attack his country."From the first round fired, the sons of Syria and Leb will become fighters who will carry out suicide kabooms on the land of Europe and Paleostine," the mufti said in a speech viewed on the Internet video-sharing website YouTube. "I say to Europe and the United States, we will prepare the fedayeen (fighters) if you strike Syria, because now it's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," the top Sunni holy man warned. "Do not come to our country, I beg you, because our country is the land of light," he told Western powers. On October 2, a son of the grand mufti, Saria Hussein, was killed along with a history professor by "armed terrorist gangs," the official SANA news agency reported. Activists said that Hussein died after being maimed in a shooting by unknown assailants north of the city of Saraqeb, in northwestern Idlib province. Syria has been rocked by unprecedented protests since mid-March against  President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime, which is dominated by his minority Alawite Islamic sect. The United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... says more than 2,900 people have been killed in the resulting crackdown on dissent. Posted by: Fred 2011-10-11 |
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