Syrian intelligence was said to have trained numerous Sunnis in abductions, executions and car bombings against the U.S.-led coalition and the interim government in Baghdad. For the first time, Iraqi authorities have presented details of Syrian support for and sponsorship of insurgency groups as well as their attacks on the U.S. military and its Iraqi allies. Authorities have presented Syrian and Iraqi nationals who recalled their recruitment and training by Syrian intelligence for the anti-American operation in Iraq. In February, Iraqi state television broadcast the confessions of nearly a dozen people who identified Syria as their employer in the insurgency in Iraq. The men included a purported Syrian intelligence officer and his aides recruited to infiltrate Iraq in a mission that reflected Syrian fear that it was also a target of the United States. The Syrian-sponsored operatives said Syria and the Saddam Hussein regime planned the insurgency nearly two years before the war against Baghdad in March 2003. They said much of the training of the Syrian-sponsored insurgents took place in Pakistan.
| Gee. I wonder where in Pakistan? |