Syria says it uncovered Qaeda mosque bomb plot

From AFP - DAMASCUS — Syrian authorities have uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to bomb Damascus mosques around the main weekly prayers, state media reported on Friday. A suspect detained on Thursday confessed that he had been planning a suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the Al-Rifai Mosque in the heart of the capital, the official SANA news agency reported.
"The authorities on Thursday arrested the terrorist Mohamed Hossam al-Saddaqa, a member of the Al-Nusra Front of Al-Qaeda, who was planning to blow himself up inside Al-Rifai Mosque in Damascus during Friday prayers," SANA said.
Saddaqa told his captors the group's members "have prepared young men ... to carry out suicide bombings in several areas in Damascus during prayers on Friday, June 15 . . . There are other suicide bombers planning attacks on a number of mosques in Damascus during Friday prayers," it quoted him as saying. He seems to have seem the only one - this week . . .
On Thursday, 14 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near an important Shiite Muslim shrine in the capital.

Posted on 06/16/2012 2:47 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax