Syrian Volunteers Reportedly Head for Iraq

STRATFOR ^ | Mar 24, 2003

[faithincowboys]

why aren't these buses getting blown up on the way in there.

[tomahawk]

Damascus will be reduced to smoldering ruin in the future.

[usafretired]

Bring 'em on. Less to deal with down the road.

[Dimensio]

I'd heard a report of one Syrian civillian bus being blown up by an errant US missile. Perhaps there was more to it than originally known...

[dfwgator]

I figured that we were going to fight Syria after we were done with Saddam. It is "terrorist central."

[headsonpikes]

Of course, the Ba'ath Party runs Syria, too.

The apostrophe in ba'ath apparently stand for,"..by, I love de...'.

;^)

[wimpycat]

So these are the "civilians" on a Syrian bus that we (supposedly) bombed.

[KriegerGeist]

Bring in the Predators with Hellfire missiles or fly in the Warthogs. It seems to trivial a job for Spooky & Spectre.

[FloridaBoy]

bring them on. we can fight them at the same time we fight the turks.

[hchutch]

I'm not surprised.

The fall of Iraq would leave Syria surrounded by countires that are friendly to the U.S. and/or Israel.

[denydenydeny]

While Stratfor sources confirm that Syrian volunteers are attempting to reach Iraq, the BBC allegations of busloads pouring out of the country are difficult to believe and can be bolstered only by the thinnest of circumstances.

That's how pathetic the BBC is these days: Even Stratfor laughs at them.

[mercy]

****The only conditions under which Damascus would allow volunteers to join Iraqi forces****...

would be if the regime was smart enough to dispose of some fundamentalist hotheads.

[dalebert]

I am sure we have enough ammo for anyone who wants to help Bagdad. Captured Iraqi combatants had pockets full of money. Killing for dollars won't last long.

[TADSLOS]

Come on in boys, the water's fine... he he...

[faithincowboys]

good. if these people keep it up i say neutron bomb the whole area and let's call it a day!!!

[kinghorse]

agreed! but I suspect they are all hat no cattle when it comes to the bravery department.

[Redcloak]

It could also be the case that Syria is ridding itself of its own Islamist radicals. IIRC, Syria is also a Baathist government and thus not on the best of terms with the Islamists. They could, for the price of a few bus tickets, purge their own radicals and stick a finger in America's eye; all with plausible deniability.

[Sabertooth]

Someone's unhappy they were left off the Axis of Evil.

[SENTINEL]

I'm with you, if we're lucky we can draw Iran into this as well. Let's finish this thing once and for all.