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2008-10-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 MOUD = IRAN + REST ASIA must be feeling a little like a proverbial "fish in abarrel" - WHETHER FOR THE US OR AGZ THE USA OR NEUTRAL/NON-ALIGNED [NAM], THEY MUST SEE US = US-ALLIED FLAGS PROPPING UP ALL OVER THE MAP OF ASIA + AROUND THE GLOBE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-10-29 03:27|| 2008-10-29 03:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Firm diplomacy. Long overdue.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-10-29 10:15|| 2008-10-29 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 this should have started in 2003 in syria and 2001 in pakiland

Posted by chris 2008-10-29 10:38|| 2008-10-29 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 A few hundred miles to the southwest and a much nicer compound please.

Posted by ed 2008-10-29 11:23|| 2008-10-29 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Syria has lately embarked on policies that France and other Western governments have viewed favorably, including indirect peace talks with Israel.

Indirect peace talks, huh? Somehow I'm just a little skeptical about that.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-10-29 11:31|| 2008-10-29 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Same Peace talks as always.

Jews surrender and die, there will be peace.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-29 11:48|| 2008-10-29 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 A summer 2007 U.S. military raid on a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq house in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, near Syria, yielded a wealth of information about alleged Syrian smuggling networks used to move foreign fighters into Iraq.

The documents included al-Qaeda in Iraq records of more than 500 foreign fighters who had entered from Syria, according to the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where civilian analysts are examining the documents. A July report made public their latest findings.

The documents indicated that at least 95 Syrian "coordinators" were involved in moving the foreign fighters. Many of the coordinators were from smuggling families in Bedouin clans and other Syrian tribes. A number of them appeared to be cooperating with al-Qaeda in Iraq for pay rather than out of ideological sympathy.

Many recruits reported to their handlers in Iraq that they had passed through Damascus, Syria's capital, and then an area near the Iraqi border called Abu Kamal. Sunday's raid occurred in Abu Kamal.

Best wishes crossing out numbers 2-95 on that list.

Posted by ed 2008-10-29 11:51|| 2008-10-29 11:51|| Front Page Top

#8 My 14 year old son would call this a Bitch slap.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2008-10-29 16:03|| 2008-10-29 16:03|| Front Page Top

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