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Syria says religious zealots behind blasts
A Syrian official said in remarks published yesterday that religious fundamentalists were behind an attack in Damascus this week and that al Qaeda could have been involved.
?Primary investigations showed that the members of the group have a fundamentalist bent with religious extremism?, Information Minister Ahmad al-Hassan told the Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat.
Asked if the attackers were from al Qaeda, he said: ?In view of the terrorist acts and volatile situation in the region and the sick mentalities it is creating ? with the US occupation of Iraq and the daily Israeli crimes against the Palestinians ? the fingers of accusation do not exclude al Qaeda.?
Syria said security forces exchanged fire with four men after they detonated a car bomb outside an empty former U.N. building in the capital on Tuesday, killing two assailants and wounding and detaining two. A policeman and a woman bystander were also killed.
Hassan said the men prematurely blew up the car, which he said was parked near the Canadian embassy, after security forces surprised them. They then fled into the UN building where the clash took place.
The Saudi-owned paper said it had learned that the attackers were of various nationalities. It gave no further details. Syria faced a wave of Islamist violence in the early 1980s by the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, which it crushed in a stand-off in the city of Hama in 1982. Rights groups say thousands died in the army siege of the town.
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