Syria "Safe Haven" For Terrorists Against Iraq: U.S.
-- Yahoo News/Reuters
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The United States criticized Syria at a security conference on Sunday for "giving safe haven to terrorists" attacking Iraq, weeks after a U.S. raid on Syria it said was targeting al Qaeda militants, delegates said.
U.S. Charge d'Affaires Maura Connelly, the highest ranking American diplomat in Syria, told a closed session of a security meeting on Iraq that the Damascus must stop allowing what she described as terrorist networks from using Syria as a base against Iraq, they told Reuters.
The criticism contrasts with the position of Washington's Western allies, including Britain, which praised Damascus for preventing foreign fighters from infiltrating Iraq.
"The American diplomat's speech was blunt and short. The United States was the only country at the conference to criticize Syria openly," one of the delegates said.
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My Comment: Northern part of Iraq is Kurdish controlled .... no terrorists can cross over ther
U.S. Charge d'Affaires Maura Connelly, the highest ranking American diplomat in Syria, told a closed session of a security meeting on Iraq that the Damascus must stop allowing what she described as terrorist networks from using Syria as a base against Iraq, they told Reuters.
The criticism contrasts with the position of Washington's Western allies, including Britain, which praised Damascus for preventing foreign fighters from infiltrating Iraq.
"The American diplomat's speech was blunt and short. The United States was the only country at the conference to criticize Syria openly," one of the delegates said.
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My Comment: Northern part of Iraq is Kurdish controlled .... no terrorists can cross over ther
The criticism contrasts with the position of Washington's Western allies, including Britain, which praised Damascus for preventing foreign fighters from infiltrating Iraq.
"The American diplomat's speech was blunt and short. The United States was the only country at the conference to criticize Syria openly," one of the delegates said.
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My Comment: Northern part of Iraq is Kurdish controlled .... no terrorists can cross over there. Iranian border tightly controlled .... hard to sneak through there, and Al Qaeda is definitely not welcomed in Iran. South part of Iraq is Shiite dominated, no Al Qaeda wanted in that part of the world .... which now leaves us the western part, bordering Syria. And yup .... that is where all the terrorists were and .... in some cases are.
"The American diplomat's speech was blunt and short. The United States was the only country at the conference to criticize Syria openly," one of the delegates said.
Read more ....
My Comment: Northern part of Iraq is Kurdish controlled .... no terrorists can cross over there. Iranian border tightly controlled .... hard to sneak through there, and Al Qaeda is definitely not welcomed in Iran. South part of Iraq is Shiite dominated, no Al Qaeda wanted in that part of the world .... which now leaves us the western part, bordering Syria. And yup .... that is where all the terrorists were and .... in some cases are.