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Rice sez Islamic Jihad behind Tel Aviv boom
The US Secretary of State has blamed a Syrian-based Islamic militant group for last week's deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.Condoleezza Rice said "the Syrians have a lot to answer for". The suicide attack outside a nightclub on Friday killed five people and threatened to wreck Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. "There is evidence that Islamic Jihad, headquartered in Syria, was in fact involved with the planning of those attacks in Tel Aviv," Ms Rice told ABC news. "And so the Syrians have a lot to answer for." Ms Rice was speaking after attending a conference in London on the future of the Palestinian state. Soon after her comments, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said there was no evidence that Syria was behind the suicide bombing. Syria, already under immense international pressure to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, has denied any connection with the nightclub bombing. It insists that Islamic Jihad's office in Damascus has closed. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-03-02 |
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