Just doing the jobs Iraqi's won't do - 90% of terrorists in Iraq are ILLEGAL ALIENS
US tells Syria to stop bombers crossing into Iraq
27 Mar 2007 19:19:42 GMT27
27 Mar 2007 19:19:42 GMT27
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Washington estimates up to 90 percent of suicide bombers in Iraq enter the country via Syria which has not acted to stop this flow of attackers, the U.S. State Department's Iraq adviser said on Tuesday.
David Satterfield, who is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's key adviser on Iraq, said Syria had an obligation to stop "jihadists" crossing into Iraq where suicide bombings are an almost daily occurrence.
He estimated 90 percent of suicide bombers in Iraq were foreigners and while the mix of nationalities changed, some 85 to 90 percent of them crossed over from Syria.
"They (suicide bombers) see Syria as a more accommodating country through which to transit across the border to come into Iraq to perpetrate their terror," Satterfield said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, .
"It has to stop, it is not in Syria's long term interests to let this violence continue," he added.
Syria has denied it allows insurgents to cross over from their territory into Iraq and says it is Iraq and the United States that have not done enough to police the border.
WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Washington estimates up to 90 percent of suicide bombers in Iraq enter the country via Syria which has not acted to stop this flow of attackers, the U.S. State Department's Iraq adviser said on Tuesday.
David Satterfield, who is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's key adviser on Iraq, said Syria had an obligation to stop "jihadists" crossing into Iraq where suicide bombings are an almost daily occurrence.
He estimated 90 percent of suicide bombers in Iraq were foreigners and while the mix of nationalities changed, some 85 to 90 percent of them crossed over from Syria.
"They (suicide bombers) see Syria as a more accommodating country through which to transit across the border to come into Iraq to perpetrate their terror," Satterfield said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, .
"It has to stop, it is not in Syria's long term interests to let this violence continue," he added.
Syria has denied it allows insurgents to cross over from their territory into Iraq and says it is Iraq and the United States that have not done enough to police the border.
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(CBS/AP) Two truck bombs struck markets in Tal Afar on Tuesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding 150, and suspected Sunni insurgents tried to ambush ambulances carrying the dozens of wounded in the second attack on the predominantly Shiite city in four days.
Two U.S. Soldiers, One Contractor, Killed In Scattered Violence Around The Country
(CBS/AP) Two truck bombs struck markets in Tal Afar on Tuesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding 150, and suspected Sunni insurgents tried to ambush ambulances carrying the dozens of wounded in the second attack on the predominantly Shiite city in four days.
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