By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 12 -- Amid
suicide car
bombings in
Damascus,
German
Ambassador to
the UN Peter
Wittig while condemning
the bombs
on May
10 told
the press that
Bashar al
Assad's
"failure to
comply"
had "fueled"
this.
An
hour later
Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press that 26
foreign
fighters
arrested in
his country
came from
Tunisia,
Lebanon,
Palestine,
Libya, Egypt
and Jordan.
Now Inner City
Press has obtained
Syria's list,
translated
into English,
and puts it
online here.
Most
of the 26
"detained Arab
nationals" on
the list are
Tunisians
described as
entering Syria
through Turkey
and "using
arms
against Syrian
Arab Army
forces in
response to
fatwas issued
by
takfiri
religious
figures in
Tunisia."
Several
are
described as
having
previously
been
imprisoned for
terrorism and
even
"pardoned and
freed after
the Tunisian
revolution."
One
was arrested
after being
solicited to
go to Iraq for
similar
fighting. The
car
bombs in
Damascus,
while blamed
by some on the
government,
are
reminiscent of
the carnage
that became a
daily
occurrence in
Iraq.
They
are listed as
students,
engineers,
farmers and
drivers; one
counterfeiter
and a
smuggler of
"narcotic
pills" from
Lebanon; even
a
restaurant
worker from Libya.
Ja'afari
on May
10 described a
ship of
weapons from
Libya meant
for fighters
in
Syria; he told
Inner City
Press that the
UN mission
UNIFIL didn't
stop it
because
"UNIFIL is
only to
protect
Israel."
What
will happen
with these
names, and
these people?
Several are
alleged to be
members
of Al-Qaida.
Yesterday,
Inner City
Press wrote
about the Al
Qaida
sanctions
committee and
its various
listings.
Will these
individuals
be listed? And
what of the
referenced
killed fighter
from Belgium,
the UK and
France? Watch
this site.
