Welcome back. syrian authorities are trying to find out who is responsible for explosion that is killed dozens in damascus. it happened where the profit mohammed is buried. they are called cowardly and your urged to condemn them. reporter: the twin suicide bombers left more than 40 dead and 120 wounded. most of the victim wrs iraqi pilgrims going to shiite shrines in a cemetery in the old city of damascus. it is not clear who was behind these bombings. given the identity, the nationality of the victims and also the location of the attack, it is more than likely the attackers were, indeed, from isis. meanwhile, syrian president,
Specific targeting. reporter: this could be an opportunity for al qaeda. it could expand operations that because of this advance they could get more recruits and could build themselves up again as a more powerful force in yemen. reporter: a top al qaeda leader distanced the group from isis. translator: the profit mohammed, peace be upon him and his family. it is not part of kindness to film beheadings. reporter: despite continuing u.s. and coalition air strikes. in iraq, worshippers received this pamphlet saying isis approved of non-muslim women and children being taken as slaves. all of this jockeying for position makes the u.s. worry a new sectarian war may be about
I will keep fight with the terrorism culture. you re fighting terrorism, that s why you wrote this film? yes, i did. that s right. that s right. that s even when i wrote the book or something i dedicate to my book to the people in benghazi and to everyone, every mother or father, her son or his son or his daughter because of terrorism culture. you knew that your film insulted the profit mohammed and knew your film would insight anger from many devout muslims. is that not true? your question it s very important and i know you mean every word you said. i know that. you said you re movie.
there is no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with violence. in fact, this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. what happened initially was it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo as a consequence of the video. the notorious video called innocents of muslims portrayed the profit mohammed as the tyrant. then the obama administration took the blame game a step too far accusing the video of being responsible for the terror attack on our embassy, our consulate in benghazi libya which resulted in the death of three brave americans. just released from a halfway house after being sentenced to a