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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SANA: U.S. Embassy attackers were Syrians
2006-09-14
The four assailants who carried out an attack against the U.S. Embassy in Damascus were Syrians, the official SANA news agency reported Wednesday. The only assailant who was captured died Wednesday of severe injuries sustained in clashes with members of the anti-terror squad, it said. "Due to his critical condition, investigators were unable to interrogate him to unravel this terrorist operation," it added.
And the investigators were really, really disappointed...

No more details were immediately available as no organization claimed responsibility for the attack. Four gunmen attempted on Tuesday to blow up two explosive-laden cars at the U.S. Embassy in downtown Damascus, which was foiled by Syrian security forces in a clash, in which three of the assailants were killed and the fourth injured. It was the latest attack against U.S. missions abroad. In March, the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi was attacked and a U.S. diplomat and four other people were killed.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Check out Debka. They say the Syrian Embassy in Washington blasted the US for causing increased terrorism in the world.

Maybe it's an attempt at payback to Bush on 9/11 for all the heat he's been putting on Assad. It is the election season you know and everyone else is piling on.
Posted by: Hupuck Hupaigum2230   2006-09-14 23:55  

#10  The "Dead" policeman has dissapeared, now they're saying that three bad guys were killed and one wounded bad guy who later died at hospital, no mention of any cops being hurt or killed.

Also the early reports said that the folks inside the Embassy didn't even know there was a "Disturbance" untill Syrian "Guards" told them.

I personaly would like the US to do a forensics on those four supposed bad guys to confirm that the bullet riddled bodies were fresh, and didn't have freezer burn here and there.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-09-14 18:58  

#9  It was one of Daddy Assad's beliefs that when you come to an impass with an opponent, you back off and divert his attention by making him think you are not his opponent, but rather a willing helper.
See, Syria doesn't mean any ill toward America, Syria is willing to step into harms way and do their moral duty.
Also, it's very Arab to use trickery in every undertaking. No 'trust but verify' here.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-09-14 14:25  

#8  Jenter Juns8542=cookie hickup
Posted by: SwissTex   2006-09-14 13:18  

#7  Russian intel logic from 70's and 80's - if you don't like the answer to the problem then change the equation.

When in 91 the Soviet changed the KGB into a Russian FSB, the 1st Directory (Foreign Intelligence) wasn't dissolved and the "illegal residents" remained in place and so did the logic. IMHO,Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew's books and the likes make it clear.
Posted by: Jenter Juns8542   2006-09-14 13:11  

#6  Assad wants to receive a public that a boy from U.S. state department officials so it makes it more difficult to condemn them as a terror sponsor. They sacrificed a son of Syria to protect American interests. Russian intel logic from 70's and 80's - if you don't like the answer to the problem then change the equation.
Posted by: Rightwing   2006-09-14 09:49  

#5  When attacks are made on the KSA or Pakistan embassy, then will Syria have a "terrorist problem". Until then, any conspiracy theory has a chance.
Posted by: Fordesque   2006-09-14 09:49  

#4  OK, let's play the "Conspiricy Game"

How do we know that anybody's dead at all?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-09-14 06:16  

#3  In what way is this whole production not Playhouse Ninety with a body count?

The captured guy wasn't DOA instead? Isn't "Syrian terrorist operation" redundant?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-14 02:36  

#2  Help me out here. In what way is this whole production not Playhouse Ninety with a body count?
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2006-09-14 01:07  

#1  OK conspiricy buffs let start the ball rolling!

Why did the Syrians setup these four dead bastards? The troops obviously knew they were comming. half their junk didn't work!

So what their angle? Come on! Spit it out!
Posted by: Hupuck Hupaigum2230   2006-09-14 00:39  

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