Militant Saudi cleric survives assassination attempt in Syria
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BEIRUT -- A Saudi Arabian cleric placed by Riyadh and its allies on a blacklist of people they call terrorists linked to Qatar said he survived assassination by a suicide bomber in Syria on Friday.
Abdullah al-Muhaysini appeared in an online video saying he was unhurt in the blast. "We got in the car and a man approached us wearing a suicide vest. He came close to the car and blew himself up," he said.
Muhaysini did not say who he believed was behind the attack, which a war monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said took place after he left a mosque in Idlib.
He is described as a terrorist by the Syrian government and its allies, as well as by the United States, which has launched air strikes against members of Tahrir al-Sham, the group he is associated with.
