[Ha'aretz] Zvi Barel - After the latest bombing in Damascus, Syrian officials refrained from pointing a finger at Israel and Interior Minister Bassam Abdul-Majid called it a terror attack, not an enemy attack, implying that suspicion falls on Islamist extremists. Saturday's bomb looked like either a "work accident" or a targeting error, but it still undermines Syria's contention that the country is immune to terrorist attacks. "Such an attack, unless it's the work of one of Syria's intelligence branches, encourages other terrorists to try their hand, and that's the main danger," a Lebanese commentator told Ha'aretz.
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