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| Iraq to search more Syria-bound flights | |
| 2013-04-01 | |
| Iraq has said it will step up searches of Iranian flights via its airspace to Syria, days after US Secretary of State John Kerry publicly criticised Baghdad for turning a blind eye to them, Aljazeera reported. But while Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's spokesman spoke of newly tightened restrictions on Iranian flights to Syria, the head of Iraq's civil aviation authority acknowledged that no planes had been searched since October. "Because of a lot of information which referred to transportation of weapons, we have increased the activity of inspections," Maliki's spokesman Ali Mussawi said on Saturday. "We will carry out more random searches, to be assured that there is no weapons transfer." Asked if the move was in response to Kerry's comments last Sunday during a surprise visit to Baghdad, Mussawi replied: "No one has provided us with evidence, just information."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Its like back in the day schoolyard football where that crappy kid who insists on being QB complains that 10 mississippi is being counted too quickly, then gets on the WRs for not getting open enough when the dude is just sitting there showboating. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-04-01 10:42 |
| #2 This will be almost as good a performance of security theater as the TSA... I'm sure they'll search the one's conveniently marked "old lady in wheelchair" or "WASP toddler". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-04-01 10:00 |
| #1 "No one has provided us with evidence, just information." Short-term mooslim memory and instinctive gratitude. So heartwarming. Nurse, please mark the chart DNR. The patient obviously wills it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-01 04:02 |