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| Syria: US embassy reopened after security threat |
| 2008-11-04 |
| (AKI) - The United States Embassy in Damascus reopened on Sunday following massive protests against an alleged air raid by the US on a village near the Iraqi border last weekend. The embassy had been closed on Thursday after Syrian riot police were deployed to protect it as tens of thousands of students, unions, religious and civic leaders protested. Syrian sources exclude the possibility of a permanent closure of the US Embassy or any move to recall Syria's Ambassador in the United States. A top Syrian militant, Budran Hisham also known as Abu Ghadiya died in the alleged US raid on a village near the Iraqi border on 26 October. He was reportedly among eight people killed in the controversial attack. US officials said he was a suspected Al-Qaeda leader responsible for a series of attacks and murders in Iraq, including the killings of 12 Iraqi policemen in May. However, SANA reported on Thursday that the alleged raid claimed the lives of "eight defenceless civilians....which targeted peaceful building workers in a farm in Abu Kamal." |
| Posted by:Fred |