To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (111873 ) 8/18/2003 1:30:56 AM From: Bilow Read Replies (1) | Respond to Hi Nadine Carroll; That was back on June 24th. It's now mid August. So did your claimed policy work? Are the Syrians toeing the line now? Is Israel safe from terror attacks? Has Syria quit supplying volunteers and weapons to Iraqi rebels? Here's what Debka says:US Warns Assad: Hands off Iraq, Stop Fomenting Anti-Israel Terror Debka, August 17, 2003 He was told to deliver a last warning to the Syrian president - to butt out of Iraq and to stop stirring up terrorism against Israel.rekindle a large-scale suicide campaign against Israel for the purpose of cutting short the partial truce in effect for six weeks. Washington knew all about the guerilla forces he was pumping into Iraq with explicit instructions to torpedo Iraqi oil exports by sabotaging oil installations in northern and western Iraq.American envoy emphasized sharply, would on no account stand for Syrian interference with the Iraq oil industry and exports. As they spoke, the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, northern Iraq’s main conduit to international markets, was set on fire by a bomb , three days after the oil flow was resumed for the first time since March. The blaze near the Baiji refinery town north of Tikrit was not extinguished until Saturday, August 16. The flow of exported Iraqi oil is delayed for another month at least. Assad had nothing to say to these warnings , according to our sources, but for a curt comment on the Hizballah. He assured his American visitor that the cross-border barrages the group had launched against an Israeli command center on Mt. Dov on August 8 and three days later against the border town of Shlomi, killing a teenager, were a one-time episode and would not be repeated. debka.com In fact, what happened is that we did the cross border BS with Iraq for 12 years and all they did was thumb their noses at us.
