Syria Blames Deadly Bombing on Takfiri Group

Source: Al-Manar TV, 29-9-2008
A weekend bombing which left 17 people dead in the Syrian capital was a suicide attack by a "terrorist" with links to Takfiri group, the official news agency SANA said on Monday.
"A preliminary inquiry has shown that the car which exploded
Saturday came across a border post from a neighboring Arab country and that the terrorist driving it blew himself up with the vehicle," the agency said. SANA added that the vehicle entered Syria on Friday and that investigators were in the process of determining the identity of the bomber through DNA tests.
A car packed with 200 kilos (440 pounds) of explosives blew up near a security checkpoint on a road to Damascus airport in what Interior Minister General Bassam Abdel Majid called "a terrorist act."
It was the deadliest attack in two decades in Syria, where security is run with an iron fist. The minister said all casualties were civilians.
The bombing was condemned internationally and regionally except for Saudi Arabia which so far did not issue any statement regarding the attack.