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| Rice sez Islamic Jihad behind Tel Aviv boom |
| 2005-03-02 |
| 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 |
| #3 PlanetDan -- there have been several statements, retractions and reclaiming -- of the attack by PIJ -- everyone else has been pretty quite or has denied it. I'd cast my vote that its PIJ related. BTW, there was some press reports that the Syrain's shut down Islamic Jihad offices today or yesterday -- but no one else. Me thinks PIJ was behind Tel Aviv |
| Posted by: H8_UBL 2005-03-02 4:59:46 PM |
| #2 Who needs evidence? Hold Syria's feet to the fire. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-03-02 11:37:23 AM |
| #1 I'm dying to know what the evidence is. So far, haven't been able to turn up anything. Not even Debka has anything. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2005-03-02 8:26:42 AM |