Damascus - Syria on Wednesday held the United States fully responsibility for the recent spate of explosions in Lebanon, Algeria and Iraq, saying that Washington was the first to release, nurture, arm and train terrorists in recent decades.
"Terrorism has returned to hit from Beirut to Algeria, at a time when it finds Iraq a fertile land to grow up and flourish," Tishrin government newspaper said in a front-page editorial.
Commuter buses were bombed in Lebanon Tuesday, leaving three dead, while six were killed when police were attacked by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in eastern Algeria.
Iraq continues to suffer a wave of sectarian bombings, the most recent on Monday when at least 70 were killed in triple blasts in Baghdad on the first anniversary of the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra that sparked what has been termed by some as a civil war.
Tishrin said the US administration was once again "diving into a quagmire of mistakes ... and threatening the use of force here and there to demonstrate that it doesn't learn from past lessons and mistakes."
"All evidence directs accusations to the one who has first released, nurtured and armed terrorism for the past decades ... Brilliant slogans such as spreading democracy and protecting human
rights and freedom would never conceal their (the Americans') sinister intentions," Tishrin said.
