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Posted on 08/19/2003 5:04:36 PM PDT by Ex-Dem
US overseer blames foreigners From correspondents in Washington August 20, 2003
PAUL Bremer, the US administrator for Iraq, has suggested in an interview that foreigners who possibly entered from Syria were responsible for the blast at the UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed 20 people.
"It certainly was a very large bomb. It may have been a bomb that was built here in Iraq. It may also have been done by foreign terrorists. We have foreign terrorists here in Iraq that we have to worry about," Bremer told the US television network ABC.
He said coalition forces had information that attacks on the US-led occupation hadbeen planned and executed by people infiltrating into Iraq from Syria.
"One of the things that makes us ... know they're coming over from Syria is because we've caught and killed some of them. That's a pretty good way to find out. And we know that there are what we call rat lines, lines of escape into and out of Syria that we have gotten track of," Bremer said.
"We have found foreign terrorists from a variety of countries, found and, in some cases, killed foreign terrorists from a variety of countries, including Syria, people carrying passports from Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and so forth."
Rick Hooper (US) Vieira de Mello (Brazil) Ranillo Buenaventura (Philippines) Marilyn Manuel (Philippines) Jean-Selim Kanaan (Egypt) Fiona Watson (UK) Christopher Klein-Beekman (Canada)
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