Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06DAMASCUS727
2006-02-26 13:19:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Damascus
Cable title:
SYRIANS DENOUNCE ATTACKS ON IRAQI SHRINES AND
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UNCLAS DAMASCUS 000727
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
PARIS FOR ZEYA, LONDON FOR TSOU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL SOCI IZ SY
SUBJECT: SYRIANS DENOUNCE ATTACKS ON IRAQI SHRINES AND
MOSQUES
UNCLAS DAMASCUS 000727
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
PARIS FOR ZEYA, LONDON FOR TSOU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL SOCI IZ SY
SUBJECT: SYRIANS DENOUNCE ATTACKS ON IRAQI SHRINES AND
MOSQUES
1. (U) Syrian officials and religious leaders strongly
denounced the February 22 bombing of the Golden Mosque in
Samara and subsequent attacks on Sunni mosques and warned
against attempts to fragment Iraq's national unity. The
Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted an official source on
February 22 as saying that: "The sinful attacks against holy
shrines, mosques, and religious establishments are aimed at
sowing sedition in Iraq and tearing apart the country's
national unity." Syria's new FM Walid Mu'allim and Iranian
First Vice President Parviz Dawoudi condemned in their
February 22 meeting the spate of attacks that seek to create
sedition in Iraq, according to Al-Thawra newspaper. Syria's
Grand Mufti, Ahmad Baderedin Hassoun, called upon Islamic
religious figures to prevent enemy schemes from tearing up
Iraq's national unity.
2. (U) After Friday prayers on February 23, demonstrators
outside the Sayda Zeinab Shiite mosque in Damascus protested
the Samara attack with placards calling on the Iraqi people
"to unite in the face of sedition and conspiracies which are
being hatched by the occupation troops to weaken the unity of
the Iraqi people," according to SANA.
SECHE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
PARIS FOR ZEYA, LONDON FOR TSOU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL SOCI IZ SY
SUBJECT: SYRIANS DENOUNCE ATTACKS ON IRAQI SHRINES AND
MOSQUES
1. (U) Syrian officials and religious leaders strongly
denounced the February 22 bombing of the Golden Mosque in
Samara and subsequent attacks on Sunni mosques and warned
against attempts to fragment Iraq's national unity. The
Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted an official source on
February 22 as saying that: "The sinful attacks against holy
shrines, mosques, and religious establishments are aimed at
sowing sedition in Iraq and tearing apart the country's
national unity." Syria's new FM Walid Mu'allim and Iranian
First Vice President Parviz Dawoudi condemned in their
February 22 meeting the spate of attacks that seek to create
sedition in Iraq, according to Al-Thawra newspaper. Syria's
Grand Mufti, Ahmad Baderedin Hassoun, called upon Islamic
religious figures to prevent enemy schemes from tearing up
Iraq's national unity.
2. (U) After Friday prayers on February 23, demonstrators
outside the Sayda Zeinab Shiite mosque in Damascus protested
the Samara attack with placards calling on the Iraqi people
"to unite in the face of sedition and conspiracies which are
being hatched by the occupation troops to weaken the unity of
the Iraqi people," according to SANA.
SECHE