'King Of Clubs' Being Sheltered By Syrian Army

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-11-2003 | Damien Mcelroy

[Dog]

The French government denied the charges, but a Syrian employee of the French embassy in Damascus claimed that eight Iraqi officials from the oil and finance ministries had been given passports in the middle of April.

"The commercial section of the embassy received passports for eight Iraqi officials and members of their families," he said. He claimed that Paris also ordered that a passport issued for Tahir Jalil al-Habbush, a former head of Iraq's Mukhabarat intelligence service who is on America's wanted list, should be cancelled soon after it had arrived. It remains unclear whether al-Habbush is in Syria.

[Dog]

Ping.

[Torie]

I have this fantasy that special ops guys land and grab this guy if they have proof positive he is there, and tell Syria that if they don't hand over the balance, it will be an act of war. It is time to give the peacenik appeasers some to whine about. They have been too silent lately, and I miss them.

OK, it is time to wake up now.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, Syria is playing with fire!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Grampa Dave]

If this is true, A$$ad, Jr is really suicidal like his neighbor $oddomite used to be!

[blam]

Powell Plans 'Candid' Dialogue In Syria

[breakem]

This can't be true. If it were, it would mean the Syrian government lied.

[dixiechick2000]

"Izzat had been put in charge of defending northern Iraq but in the absence of a northern front, he decided to flee."

That does it! NOW I've lost all respect for him.

That was a crazy thing to do!

[Grampa Dave]

A link to last weeks expose by Bill Gertz re the French Frogs providing Pass ports to the top Iraqi Criminals.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/906846/posts

France helped Iraqis escape
Washington Times ^ | 6 May 2003 | Bill Gertz


Posted on 05/06/2003 7:58 PM PDT by Grampa Dave


France helped Iraqis escape Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published May 6, 2003

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The French government secretly supplied fleeing Iraqi officials with passports in Syria that allowed them to escape to Europe, The Washington Times has learned.

An unknown number of Iraqis who worked for Saddam Hussein's government were given passports by French officials in Syria, U.S. intelligence officials said.

The passports are regarded as documents of the European Union, because of France's membership in the union, and have helped the Iraqis avoid capture, said officials familiar with intelligence reports.

The French support, which was revealed through sensitive intelligence-gathering means, angered Pentagon, State Department and intelligence officials in Washington because it undermined the search for senior aides to Saddam, who fled Iraq in large numbers after the fall of Baghdad on April 9.

"It made it very difficult to track these people," one official said.

A second Bush administration official said, "It's like Raoul Wallenberg in reverse," a reference to the Swedish diplomat who supplied travel documents to help Jews escape Nazi Germany in World War II. "Now you have the French helping the bad guys escape from us."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/906846/posts

[BOBTHENAILER]

these guys were fat."

The clock is officially ticking and Syria may be running out of time. Thanks for the ping.

[stboz]

This can't be true. If it were, it would mean the Syrian government lied.

You mean like that pathetic little weasel that shows up on Fox every so often? Hmmm, a pair of pliers or a set of hedge clippers might straighten him out.

[breakem]

who dat?

[Just mythoughts]

This just can't be possible, after all Powell went over and set the Syrian's straight.

Guess somebody needs to tell the Telegraph that their sources have it all wrong.

Syria is now our friend. NOT!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Syria is playing with fire!

Not just Syria, but France as well.

"Many other Iraqis are making plans to move on from Syria. Last week, American intelligence officials accused France of providing passports to fleeing regime officials who want to come to western Europe."

[sheik yerbouty]

"Damascus shall no longer be called a city. It shall be a ruinous heap." Mekhtoub!(It is written)

[lainde]

bttt

[stboz]

The new Syrian ambassador to whatever....

[breakem]

thanx

[piasa]

blast from the past- France, passports, and escaping Iraqis

The French government denied the charges, but a Syrian employee of the French embassy in Damascus claimed that eight Iraqi officials from the oil and finance ministries had been given passports in the middle of April [2003]. "The commercial section of the embassy received passports for eight Iraqi officials and members of their families," he said. He claimed that Paris also ordered that a passport issued for Tahir Jalil al-Habbush, a former head of Iraq's Mukhabarat intelligence service who is on America's wanted list, should be cancelled soon after it had arrived. It remains unclear whether al-Habbush is in Syria.