[03:18.23]Syrian officials have attended the funeral of the country’s most prominent Sunni cleric Shepherd Mohammed al-Bouti
[03:24.74]who was assassinated in a bombing on a mosque on Thursday.
[03:28.06]Mourners carried his coffin draped in white to the Umayyad Mosque, a site near the grave of one of the Islam’s most revered leaders Shaykh Adi.
[03:36.88]The decision has provoked angry response from opposition activists.
[03:40.80]The former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
[03:44.54]says he isn’t worried by Taliban’s threats to kill him when as planned he returns to Pakistan from self-imposed exile on Sunday.
[03:52.53]Speaking in Dubai, General Musharraf said the Taliban had long tried and failed to kill him
[03:58.00]but added that he was taking appropriate precautions because his safety couldn’t always be guaranteed.
[04:03.45]From Dubai, Orla Guerin reports.
[04:05.90]On the eve of his planned homecoming, the Pakistan Taliban had a message for General Pervez Musharraf.
[04:13.42]They said a squad of suicide bombers and snipers had been assembled to send him to hell.
[04:19.64]The threat came from a militant who tried to assassinate him in the past.
[04:24.40]The threat from militants is just one risk facing General Musharraf who seized power in a coup in 1999.
[04:32.20]He is wanted in several legal cases.