Syrian Mufti Warns of Lebanese, Syrian Suicide Bombers if West Attacks Syria
Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, the country's highest religious authority, has warned Europe, the United States and Israel of suicide bombings if they attack his country.
"From the first round fired, the sons of Syria and Lebanon will become fighters who will carry out suicide attacks on the land of Europe and Palestine," the mufti said in a speech viewed on the Internet video-sharing website YouTube.
"I say to Europe and the United States, we will prepare the fedayeen (fighters) if you strike Syria, because now it's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," the top Sunni cleric warned.
"Do not come to our country, I beg you, because our country is the land of light," he told Western powers.
On October 2, a son of the grand mufti, Saria Hussein, was killed along with a history professor by "armed terrorist gangs," the official SANA news agency reported.
Activists said that Hussein died after being wounded in a shooting by unknown assailants north of the city of Saraqeb, in northwestern Idlib province.
Syria has been rocked by unprecedented protests since mid-March against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, which is dominated by his minority Alawite Islamic sect.
The United Nations says more than 2,900 people have been killed in the resulting crackdown on dissent.
Source: Agence France Presse
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