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Al Qaeda Infiltrates Syria Via Iraq – Iraqi FM

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Members of the world’s No.1 terrorist organization Al Qaeda infiltrate Syria via Iraq to carry out terrorist attacks, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Thursday.

Members of the world’s No.1 terrorist organization Al Qaeda infiltrate Syria via Iraq to carry out terrorist attacks, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Thursday.

“We have reliable data that the members of the terrorist group Al Qaeda have moved to another place, Syria, to assist in carrying out terrorist attacks, communicate with other militant groups and take part in the attacks,” Zebari said.

The minister also said that Iraqi officials were worried about the spread of violence from Syria to the rest of the region.

In mid-May, the U.S. Pentagon Chief Leon Panetta said that Al Qaeda terrorists were among the ranks of the opposition groups in Syria fighting against President Bashar al-Assad.

The UN estimated in May that some 10,000 people have been killed in Syria since the beginning of a revolt against Assad in March 2011. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based organization with a network of activists in Syria, revised the death toll to 16,500 on Monday. The group said June had been the bloodiest month of the conflict so far, with around 100 deaths every day.

 

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