US backed Al Qaeda bombing Iraq and Syria

Al-Qaeda behind terrorism in both Iraq and Syria: Iraqi MP
25 July, 2012 – Shia Post

An Iraqi parliamentarian has tied the latest chain of terror attacks and persisting insecurity in Iraq to the foreign-sponsored unrest in Syria, insisting that the sources of the violence in both countries are the Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terror elements.

“It is clear that there is direct connection between the events in Syria and the [persisting] insecurity in Iraq and those that conduct murder and bombings in Iraq are the same people who are currently engaged in bombing and killing the Syrian people,” said Hakem al-Zameli, a member of Iraqi parliament committee on security and defense, Alsumaria Iraqi TV website reported Tuesday.

Al-Zameli went on to insist that “most of those (involved in terror) are members of al-Qaeda.”

The Iraqi parliamentarian further demanded that the Iraqi government and the nation’s security establishment take serious steps to “support Iraqi citizens by confronting the sources of insecurity.”

He also emphasized that in the past 10 years Iraq has been struggling against terrorism, led by country’s ministries of interior and defense. …more