Syria’s Foreign Foreign Ministry has written a letter to the U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon accusing neighboring Turkey of allowing thousands of al-Qaeda and “Takfiri and Wahhabi terrorists” to cross the border to “kill innocent Syrians, blow up their properties and spread chaos and destruction.”
photoA man wearing a black shirt bearing an al-Qaeda flag (L) speaks with a UN observer as monitors meet with rebels and civilians in the village of Azzara in the province of Homs in Syria on May 4, 2012. .

The letter confirms earlier earlier reports of al-Qaeda jihadists moving into Syria.

In February, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said al-Qaeda has “infiltrated” Syrian opposition group and is likely responsible for a number of terrorist attacks. Two bombings in Damascus in December and attacks on security and intelligence buildings in Aleppo “had all the earmarks of an al-Qaeda-like attack,” Clapper said, according to the Washington Post.

In July, German intelligence confirmed Clapper’s remarks about al-Qaeda. It estimated that “around 90″ terror attacks that “can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups” were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July.



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