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Bin Laden could not have acted alone
Syria DAMASCUS:
The Syrian foreign minister said he doubted that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network acted alone in the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, saying that "there should be assistance that had been offered to them from persons and institutions" inside the country.
Addressing a meeting of the ruling National Congress Front coalition, led by President Bashar Assad's Baath party yesterday, Farouk al-Sharaa accused Washington of a "hidden agenda" in its war against terrorism, such as a desire to control vast oil reserves in the Caspian Sea.
"The United States has not presented irrefutable and clear proof about the September accident," al-Sharra said.
"It has presented evidence that can be called presumptuous evidence which has so me ambiguity ... based on travels and on money moved between Europe and the USA.
"Is it possible that bin Laden and Taliban were alone behind this complicated act?
I say no.
There should be an assistance that had been offered to them from institutions elaborate.
Although Syria is on Washington's list of nations considered to be sponsors of international terrorism, the United States says it has enlisted Damascus' help in combating terrorism.
But the two countries differ sharply over Syria's support for Lebanese Hez bollah guerrillas and two militant Palestinian groups also labeled terrorist by the U.S. State Department.
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