UN chief says Al Qaeda behind Syria bombings

Published time: May 18, 2012 03:57
Edited time: May 18, 2012 07:57
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

The UN General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon believes Al-Qaeda was behind two suicide car-bomb attacks in Syria that claimed 55 lives and injured 372 last week.

­"A few days ago there was a huge, serious, massive terrorist attack. I believe that there must be Al-Qaeda behind it. This has created again very serious problems," Ban told a youth event at UN headquarters in New York on Friday.

The bombings occurred in the Syrian capital Damascus on May 10 and have been described as the deadliest attack in the city since the beginning of the uprising against the Assad regime.

The UN chief added that at least 10,000 people have now died in the 14-months of conflict in Syria.

Damascus insists that it is fighting foreign-led insurgents.

The statement by Ban Ki-moon comes after the Syrian envoy to the UN, Bashar Ja’afari, released the names of 26 alleged foreign terrorists it claims to have captured on its soil. Twenty are said to be Arabs who have confessed to working for Al Qaeda. The list also includes French and British citizens.

He added that most of the detained are thought to have entered Syria through Turkey.

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Truth Hurts (unregistered) 30.05.2012 14:59

This man will later prove to be the WORST thing that has happened to the so-called UN. He is not only a terrorist sympathiser, but he helps in enforcing any terrorists action by his terror loving masters... The West! Why do anyone think it was so easy to give him second term? Because he dance to any tune they play, yet he is so foolish to think that his country S.Korea is under US occupation and the N.Korea can still wipe it off anytime. He is busy sanctioning bombing all the relatively stable countries, from his coup d’état and genocide in Ivory Coast, to his, role in sending a NATO ( North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation), a partner of Al-Qaeda, to destroy Libya and massacre thousands of innocent people mostly 'Black Africans'. His racist hatred to 'black Africans' is legendary, especially for non-Muslims. He suppressed every attempt to call genocide in Sudan or Nigeria by name, now what kind of man is that?

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bob (unregistered) 30.05.2012 11:14

I think people need to pay close attention to the UN!!! especially if you read their biodiversity plans , you then start to see the whole picture !!....

UN Biodiversity Assessment on Sustainable Human Population; US Senate September 9, 1994:
“A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be one billion people. This must be implemented within 30-50 years, 2/3’s of the population must be cut.”

UN Biodiversity Treaty UN Global Biological Assessment Sustainable Human Populations:
“Population growth has exceeded the capacity of the biosphere” (i.e. the earth) “It is estimated that an ‘agricultural world’ in which most human beings are peasants should be able to support 5 to 7 billion people.”

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Rubin Schmidt (unregistered) 30.05.2012 02:21

Just before he "died" Robin Cooke. M.P.announced in the British Parliament that the translation of "Al Qaeda" was "The List" (of CIA,s assets in Nth. Africa) Bankie Moon just like Omana, the IAEA guy are just puppets of the EVIL ONES.!!

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