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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria seeking EU help to stop arms smuggling

2006-09-16

Syria has approached several EU states, including Germany, requesting help on how to stop arms smuggling across its border with Lebanon, Germany said on Friday. "Syria approached several EU states - also Germany and me personally - with a request for advice and assistance for the border controls on the Syrian side," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Sure, we Euros are stupid. We must give Assad all the security intelligence we can so they can make us look like the fools we are
The EU said in a statement it would draw up a report on possible EU help for border security as part of the existing UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending the conflict between Israel and Hizbullah. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said last weekend that Europeans could train Syrian forces to clamp down on arms smuggling, but denied he had suggested Europeans might patrol the border.

Yup, it's just a lack of training that keeps the Syrians from policing their border.

Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema told a news briefing in Brussels that EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana had been charged to follow up on the plan. "The first aim is to technically support the Lebanese army but also on the basis of some opportunites registered by Prodi, to study the possibility of European assistance for the Syrians," D'Alema said.

D'Alema said Solana would work, particularly with the Germans, to create a European programme that would then be presented to the United Nations. He noted that Germany had already agreed to provide personnel and technical support.

Posted by:Captain America

#6 One of the best lines in the whole movie, if not the best.

Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-16 17:27

#5 Zenster - and of course add:

"Anyone else want to negotiate?"

Posted by: DMFD 2006-09-16 16:47

#4 Priceless, fricking priceless. Europe needs to take Syria's envoy outside and shoot him for such a blatant snowjob. This needs to be common practice with these Islamic con-men. Imagine how quickly things would improve if we used the Dallas Korbin School of Negotiation Protocol.

"We demand you release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the soldier from Isra ... BLAMMO!"

"We seek extensive negotiations with the EU about suspending further uranium enrich ... KAPOW!"

"Your city's failure to install sharia law causes these Muslim youths to rio ... BANG!"

I'd pay good money to see it.

Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-16 16:37

#3 Syria seeking EU help to ~~stop~~ increase arms smuggling to facilitate more efficient Jooooo-killing

There - fixed that for ya'.

Accuracy is important.

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-16 05:28

#2 The arms smugglers must be cutting a little too deep into Baby Assad's profit margin.

Posted by: Scott R 2006-09-16 01:29

#1 " "The first aim is to technically support the Lebanese army but also on the basis of some opportunites registered by Prodi, to study the possibility of European assistance for the Syrians," D'Alema said."

But of course! It would be an excellent jobs program for Syria's visual and hearing impaired. Social action is what the EU is good at, no?

Posted by: Fordesque 2006-09-16 00:30

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