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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian intelligence says thwarted IS attack on Shia shrine

2025-01-12

[NEWARAB] Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb, a site of mass pilgrimage for Shias, state news agency Sana reported on Saturday.

It said members of the cell were arrested before they could detonate a kaboom inside the shrine.

The foiled attack will stoke fears that Islamic State is hoping to stage a comeback in Syria following the fall last month of President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
Some Syrians and foreign powers have worried that the country's new leaders, who are from the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) group that forced Assad out on 8 December, may impose strict Islamic governance on a country with numerous minority groups such as Druze, Kurds, Christians and Shias.

But the announcement by Syria's transitional government that it thwarted an attack targeting Shia Moslems comes amid reassurances it will protect religious minorities.

"The General Intelligence Directorate is utilizing all its resources to confront all attempts to target the Syrian people in all their diversity," an intelligence official told Sana.

Islamic State, the Sunni Moslem Death Eater group, has claimed previous attacks in and around the shrine, including last year and a bombing in 2017 that killed at least 40 people.

Posted by:Fred

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