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U.S.: Syria deliberately sabotaging U.S. coalition in Iraq Syria continues to supply Sunni insurgents to Iraq. Officials said Syria has sought to gain a foothold in Iraq by sending insurgents to attack the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces. They expect Iran and Syria to maintain their activities despite numerous U.S. appeals. "I would say from my perspective that Syria's not helping, they're hurting," said Gen. George Casey, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq. "And they need to change what they're doing, not only on their borders, but they need to reduce the flow of foreign fighters that are coming through Damascus, working their way through Syria and into Iraq. They can stop it." Backgrounder: Pentagon increasingly frustrated by Syria-Iraq connection "It is a fact that terrorists come across the Syrian border," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. "It is also a fact that Syria is a dictatorship with a very large intelligence community. And one has to assume they know it is going on in their country." Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee on June 23 that the foreign threats to Iraq require the continued presence of the coalition. But the defense secretary envisioned an Iraq capable of eventually stopping Syria's support for the insurgency. "Syria lives next door to Iraq," Rumsfeld said. "The Iraqis don't like what's going on and they're going to be in that neighborhood for a long time. And they're bigger and they're wealthier and they're going to be unhappy because Iraqis are being killed because terrorist and jihadists are coming across those borders and being allowed to do that." Officials said the administration has assessed that Iraq would not be able to defeat the Sunni insurgency movement over the next year. They warned of any delay in approving the Iraqi constitution, regarded as key to help stem the insurgency. The failure to approve a constitution "increases the number of deaths and the tempo of action," said U.S. Central Command chief Gen. John Abizaid. "It would be a bad thing, but not fatal," he said. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
