December 23, 2004

Syria Housing Saddam Loyalists

- Times Online

IRAQ has confronted Syria with evidence indicating that senior Syrian officials have been assisting the Iraqi insurgency, it emerged yesterday.

The evidence includes photographs of Syrian officials taken from Iraqi fighters captured during the offensive against Fallujah last month.

US Marines in Fallujah also found a hand-held global-positioning system receiver with waypoints originating in western Syria and the names of four Syrians in a list of 27 foreign fighters contained in a ledger.

Hassan Allawi, Iraq’s newly appointed Ambassador to Syria, told The Times in Damascus: “Prime Minister Iyad Allawi wrote a letter to the Syrians saying he had the pictures but was not going to release them despite being under pressure from the Americans to do so.â€

Mr Allawi said the photographs were found in the possession of Moayed Ahmed Yasseen, also known as Abu Ahmed, leader of the Jaish Muhammad group composed of former Baathist intelligence personnel. One picture showed Mr Yasseen standing beside a senior Syrian official, he said. Mr Yasseen was arrested in Fallujah in mid-November.


There have been numerous reports indicating Syrian involvement in the insurgency inside of Iraq. Last week Syrian intelligence officials were captured in Najaf aiding the insurgency. The story indicating Syria's housing of Saddam loyalists inside of Syria has been documented before, however there are no pictures which would provide guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Radical Islamic mosques in Western Syria indoctrinate terrorists from all over the Middle East and Europe before they are sent into Iraq to fight the Coallition and Iraqi soldiers/citizens.

Syrian government officials fear Democracy inside of the Middle East and Iraq specifically because the idea alone has caused protests by the citizens of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iran already. Syria remains the one bordering country of Iraq where the people have not had a protest in favor of Democracy, though part of this could be the massive suppression by the Syrian government.

Syria has been, and still is, a thorn in the side of the United States, the Iraqi people and the entire civilized world through funding, supporting, indoctrinating and arming terrorists hell-bent on forming a radical Islamic state of Iraq. Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there were 18 trucks seen by satellite crossing the border from Iraq to Syria which allegedly carried any remaining WMD stockpiles left in Iraq. Of course the content of those trucks is in question, however the Syrian support of the terrorist acts in Iraq cannot be questioned.

Cross-posted at In the Bullpen

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