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Posted: 12:17 AM Oct 12, 2011
Top Syria Cleric Threatens Attacks On US and EU
The prospect of an intervention seems to have rattled the Assad regime
Reporter: Associated Press |
Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, right, and Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Ignatius IV Hazim, head of the Greek Orthodox community stand together on Saturday May 12, 2007 in Damascus.
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BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's top Sunni Muslim cleric has warned Western
countries against military intervention in Syria and has threatened to retaliate with suicide bombings in the United States and Europe if his country comes under attack.
Western countries have shown no willingness to open a Libyan-style military campaign against the regime of President Bashar Assad, who has launched a bloody crackdown on the seven-month uprising against his rule, and NATO's chief said last week the alliance has "no intention whatsoever" of intervening in Syria. Still, the prospect of such an intervention seems to have rattled the Assad regime.
In a speech late Sunday, Syria's state-appointed grand mufti, an Assad loyalist, said that if the West bombs Syria or Lebanon, it will be "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," with Syria commissioning suicide bombers who he said are already in the U.S. and Europe.
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