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U.S. Confirms American Carried Out Syria Suicide Bombing
[An Nahar] The United States confirmed Friday that it believes a U.S. citizen carried out a suicide kaboom within Syria, as had been claimed by hardline Salafist tough guys.State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not provide any details about the suspect, who had been identified in a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report as a man in his 20s from Florida and of Middle Eastern descent. "I can confirm that this individual was a U.S. citizen," Psaki said, adding that he was "involved in a suicide kaboom inside Syria." Western powers have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that some of their citizens have traveled to fight in the civil war in Syria, some of them joining Death Eater groups that might one day seek to strike their home countries. According to a video released by supporters of al-Qaeda's Syria branch al-Nusra Front, the American -- fighting under the name Abu Hurayra al-Amriki -- carried out a suicide truck bombing in the Syrian town of Idlib. The video, reported by the private terrorism watchdog SITE Intelligence Group, depicts a huge kaboom as well as footage of a young, bearded man cradling a cat and identified as the attacker. The bombing is thought to have taken place on Sunday. The New York Times report cited U.S. officials as saying they thought it was the first such suicide kaboom to have been carried out by an American. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group with ties to the Syrian opposition, said dozens of Syrian soldiers were killed in four suicide kabooms in the Idlib region on Sunday.
Posted by: Fred 2014-05-31 |
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