Iraqi minister says al-Qaeda infiltrating Syria

2012-07-06

The Iraqi foreign minister said Thursday (July 5th) that al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq are entering neighbouring Syria.

"We have solid information and intelligence that members of al-Qaeda's terrorist network have gone to Syria," Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari was quoted as saying by Al-Jazeera.

"Most of the suicide bombers, foreign fighters [and] elements of al-Qaeda used to slip into Iraq from Syria. So they know the routes and the connections," he said.

The Syrian regime blames the country's uprising on armed terrorist groups.

However, the Free Syrian Army and other opposition forces deny any links to terrorism and al-Qaeda-style attacks.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has also said in May he believed al-Qaeda terrorists were responsible for two suicide car bombs in Damascus that left at least 55 people dead.

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2012-7-7

The defense and security are the bases of the central dogma of the civilized countries which translates the national political dogma. It depends on a number of constants, notably maintaining the unity of the motherland and protecting its borders from foreign threats as well as tightening the control on the military aspects and restricting it to the country according to the legal system which permits the application of law and order, the preservation of rights and the freedoms of the community, in addition to the protection of the people according to the laws and the Humanitarian Instruments System, and pairing it with the basic citizenship rights which were approved by the Permanent Constitution. They are preventing the hybrids of the terrorist ideology that are not consistent with the national fusion as well as all those factors associated with an international professional scientific organization subjected to the standards of the military education system and the art of the military strategy that were written as solidly scientific courses to build a civilized country, which has a monopoly over the use of force to implement order and achieve security, especially after the completion of its human aspects, and addressing the factors that feed violence and the manifestations of the aspects of repression and of political terrorism, and controling the rhythm of the work of security and military institutions in accordance with the legal, national and humanitarian concepts, the importance of neutrality of the forces, and determining their allegiances to protect the homeland and the people exclusively, because the armed forces are a reflection of the people. They work to serve them according to the philosophy of the social contract in which the citizen gives up a fraction of his liberty for the maintenance of security, development and its long-term benefits.