Foreign Truck Bombers in Syria Highlight Risk Al-Qaeda
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Two Jordanian men, a wealthy businessman and a salesman got into explosives-rigged trucks last month and blew themselves up at a base occupied by troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the southern province of Daraa.
Nasser al-Dalqamouni, 32, and Mahmoud Abdel-Aal, 30, belonged to Jordan’s banned, ultra-religious Salafist movement, according to Mousa Abdallat, a lawyer representing radical Islamists in Jordan. “They were driven to go to Syria by the images they saw on TV of the massacres that Assad’s gangs were committing,” Abdallat said in a telephone interview from Amman.