US blames Syria for letting bombers into Iraq

Source: Reuters

US blames Syria for letting bombers into Iraq

March 28 2007 at 03:49AM

By Sue Pleming

Washington - Washington estimates that 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 US 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, 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.




Read more: http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20070327221710262C349856

This stinks.

Claims without evidence ?

Shall we have a three front war in the ME ? ....

Heck ... Iraq is so damned easy we SHOULD attack more countries, just to get our lazy ass soldiers back to work .... right ? ....

(EXTREME :sarcasm:) ....

How bout this : Name a country that hasnt yet been attacked, and I can give you a dollar to a dime they will be in short order .....

(just kiddin about the money ...)

Makes about as much sense.

coming from Iran? :crazy:

and couldn't imagine it would be problem.... :eyes:

To think that 85-90 percent of the suicide bombers come through Syria! Gasp!
15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis and yet we needed to attack Iraq and Afghanistan.

How many of these suicide bombers are we sucessfully intercepting on the Iraqi side of the border and what can we do to improve on that?

Given this county's success at keeping out people determined to get in, I can't see why the Syrians, with their unlimited wealth should have any trouble. Sarcasm.

To think that David Satterfield is Sec'y of State Condoleeza Rice's key advisor on Iraq.

David Satterfield : Whiner of the Day :applause:

to the State Department's claims. And in a few weeks the whole charade will be repeated.

Will he expand the war on the middle east on two fronts of just one at a time?

And that's a fact.

But as always, bush fails at his responsibilities & blames everyone else.

ho hum

he's* accusing Syria of being the Suicide bomber supplier...

yeeeeeahhhhh....

I sooooooooo believe him.