Britain's Hague talks of al-Qaeda involvement in Syria

11 June 2012, 22:01 (GMT+05:00)

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Britain believes that terrorist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda have committed attacks to "exacerbate" the violence in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague said in parliament Monday, DPA reported.

In his statement, Hague also warned that there could not be an "open-ended commitment" to the Kofi Annan peace plan. He repeated his view that the situation in Syria increasingly resembled that "in Bosnia in the 1990s."

"We also have reason to believe that terrorist groups affiliated to a-Qaeda have committed attacks designed to exacerbate the violence, with serious implications for international security," he said, without giving further details.

Hague said Britain did not want to see the Annan plan fail. "But if, despite our best efforts, it does not succeed, we would have to consider other options for resolving the crisis. In our view all options would then be on the table."