This may be a response to criticism that the terrorist group hasn’t done enough to fight Israel, but Al-Qaeda has published a report that admitted that the organization has a branch in Damascus and that this branch carried out rocket attacks on Israel from Lebanon on June 17, 2007 and in January 2008. The report also claimed that eight rockets found in Lebanon on December 25, 2008 belonged to Al-Qaeda-Damascus.
This branch is led by “close comrades of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” it says, proving that Syria acted as a safe haven for the Al-Qaeda element of the Iraqi insurgency.
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