{"id":1466,"date":"2008-11-06T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2008-11-06T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T22:14:39","slug":"syrian-tv-shows-men-confessing-to-deadly-bomb-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/syrian-tv-shows-men-confessing-to-deadly-bomb-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian TV shows men &#8216;confessing&#8217; to deadly bomb blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Alex.<\/p>\n<p>DAMASCUS (AFP) \u2014 Syrian state television on Thursday broadcast statements by men it said were Fatah al-Islam militants, in which they admitted carrying out a bomb attack in September that killed 17 people.<\/p>\n<p>The men included Abdul Baqi al-Hussein, described as the head of security in Syria of Fatah al-Islam, who said the aim of the attack was to &#8220;harm the regime in Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1467\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confessions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1467\" title=\"confessions\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confessions.jpg\" alt=\"confession on Syrian Television\" width=\"474\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confessions.jpg 350w, https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confessions-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">confession on Syrian Television<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20081106-233258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1474 alignnone\" title=\"20081106-233258\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20081106-233258-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20081106-233258-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20081106-233258.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The television programme also showed a photo of a man said to have been the suicide bomber in the September 27 attack in Damascus, naming him as Abu Aysha al-Saudi &#8212; &#8216;The Saudi&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the army in Syria&#8217;s neighbour Lebanon fought a 15-week battle with the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared near Tripoli that left 400 people dead, including 168 soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fatah al-Islam chief Shaker al-Abssi managed to flee the camp and vowed revenge attacks against the Lebanese army. Before the deadly camp siege in Lebanon Abssi served a prison term in Syria for having links to Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>On September 27, a car bomb exploded near a Shiite shrine in southern Damascus killing 17 people and wounding 14 others, in one of the deadliest attacks in Syria in a dozen years.<\/p>\n<p>The car, packed with 200 kilos (440 pounds) of explosives, blew up near a security checkpoint on a road to Damascus international airport at an intersection leading to the Sayeda Zeinab neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>All the victims were civilian passers-by.<\/p>\n<p>Among those on the Thursday night broadcast was a woman Syrian television said was Wafa al-Abssi, daughter of the Fatah al-Islam chief.<\/p>\n<p>The men who spoke in the programme said they had carried out a series of armed robberies to finance the September attack. They also said the car used in the bombing had been stolen from an Iraqi.<\/p>\n<p>Sayeda Zeinab is popular among Shiites from Iran, Lebanon and Iraq who go there on pilgrimage to pray at the tomb of Zeinab, a grand-daughter of the Prophet Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>The blast was the worst to rock Syria since February when Hezbollah commander Imad Mughnieh was killed by a car bomb in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>Since May, Lebanon&#8217;s northern port city of Tripoli near the Syrian border has also been rocked by deadly sectarian violence between Sunni supporters of the government and their Damascus-backed rivals from the Alawite community.<\/p>\n<p>More details in Arabic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/ara\/2\/2008\/11\/06\/200295.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Alex. DAMASCUS (AFP) \u2014 Syrian state television on Thursday broadcast statements by men it said were Fatah al-Islam militants, in which they admitted carrying out a bomb attack in September that killed 17 people. 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