Posted on 05/23/2007 2:55:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
KUWAIT CITY - Seventy percent of foreign insurgents arrested in Iraq came from Persian Gulf countries via Syria where they were provided with forged passports, an Iraqi intelligence officer said in a published report Wednesday.
"They, according to their own confessions, gather in mosques in the said (Gulf) states to travel to Syria using their passports, taking with them phone numbers of individuals waiting for them there," Brig. Gen. Rashid Fleih, the assistant undersecretary for intelligence of Iraq's Interior Ministry, told Kuwait's Al-Qabas daily in an interview.
Fleih did not provide more specific details about the alleged insurgents or which countries they came from. But he said once in Syria, the alleged insurgents were transported to the al-Qaim border area where they were provided with new passports after their old ones were destroyed, Fleih said in an interview from Baghdad.
U.S. and Iraqi officials claim Syria does not do enough to prohibit people of different nationalities from crossing its 380-mile border with Iraq to join the ranks of al-Qaida and other insurgent or terrorist groups there. Damascus denies the allegations and says it is doing all it can to stop them.
The Iraqi intelligence officer did not say where the other 30 percent of insurgents in custody came from. A large percentage of insurgents fighting in Iraq are Iraqi.
Iraq's other neighbor Iran, is suspected of aiding Iraqi Shiite fighters with training, money and weapons. Tehran denies the accusations.
Once in Iraq, the insurgents were provided with forged Iraqi documentation and money to buy cars which they rig with booby traps, Fleih told the newspaper.
He also accused Baathist followers of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of offering the foreign insurgents information about targets.
"In brief, there is clear intelligence cooperation between them," Fleih told the newspaper.
A member of Iraqi security forces guards a detained suspected insurgent in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 13, 2007. Ten suspects were arrested in a raid near Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province. (AP Photo/Adem Hadei)
Democrat, er, demographic terrorist flypaper ping...
They’re all in it together, and don’t forget those Saudi-state insurgents being trained by Iran. The best way to interrupt their activities very effectively would be to make an example of Iran.
Gee. Ya think?
Task one B-1... one mission... hit Syria......it will all stop. Announce this one mission was the only warning they will ever get...next time....they get hit with a full compliment of B-1’s and B-2’s and B-52’s..
We should have notified both the Iranian and Syrian gov’ts a long time ago that we will kill ANYTHING larger than a field mouse coming across those borders. But that would seem insensitive and we can’t have that.
They sure do have fancy blindfolds in them parts!
Perchance to dream...
So? We know Iranians are killing Americans with weapons and training but we refuse to do anything about it. Time to get the hell out if we arent going to protect our guys.
wait...I thought we were babysitting a civil war???
Off topic but Fox News is about to run a piece about the big Taliban spring offensive(tm) and what happened to it...:-)
Fox Report: 1,000 mid-level Taliban leaders have been KILLED in the last year..also after the death of Dadullah Taliban morale was crushed...and the Taliban are being told to remain “professional”.
And more every day. I recall too that there is increasing assistance from the natives which probably accounts for some of these more recent bountiful strikes...
It’s called bus therapy.
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