Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi sent a letter to the President Bashar al-Assad on Friday, urging him to handover Saddam's loyalists, saying that they are disrupting security in Iraq. In his message, the Iraqi PM said that it was 'disgraceful' that loyalists of the toppled Iraqi president were abusing the hospitality accorded to them in Syria. However, Allawi stressed that he does not mean that those officials were working with the approval of the Syrian government. Yet he urged the Syrian government to hand over those, he says are harming Iraq. Allawi claimed that he has evidence that former Iraqi officials are living in Syria and carrying out what he called 'terrorist acts'. "There are elements that abuse hospitality accorded to them, whether in Syria or elsewhere. They seek to harm Iraq and the Iraqi people. I wrote letters, including one to [Syrian] President Assad, in which I explained the issue to him," Al-Arabiya Arabic TV station quoted Allawi as saying.