Iraq is the terrorist bug zapper. ROTFLMHO
Syria: 1,200 arrested trying to cross into Iraq
May. 26, 2005 7:58
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Syria has arrested more than 1,200 people trying to cross the border into Iraq in recent weeks and sent many of them back to their own countries, Syria's UN ambassador said.
Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad said Syria suspected that the people arrested - mostly foreigners - intended to carry out illegal activities in Iraq so they were arrested and sent back to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya and other countries.
"We gave a lot of information to the United States on these issues, which prevented many attacks, but regrettably, the United States did not recognize such kind of help," he said in an interview Wednesday.
Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Mustafa, said Tuesday that Syria had stopped security and military cooperation with the United States in the past few months after Washington failed to respond to repeated Syrian overtures. Mekdad said contacts continued "until a few weeks ago."
Syria provided the United States with intelligence on al-Qaida after the Sept. 1, 2001, attacks. But US President George W. Bush ordered sanctions against Damascus a year ago after longstanding complaints that Syria was supporting terrorism and undermining US efforts in Iraq _ allegations it denies.
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