Steadfast Syrian border guard.
Posted on 11/07/2004 5:42:29 AM PST by Ginifer
With preparations under way for US Marines to storm Fallujah, a stronghold of foreign and Iraqi insurgents, Syria pledged Sunday it will do all it can to stop infiltration through its border with Iraq.
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said during a short visit to Cairo to discuss the deteriorating situation in Iraq that a conference to be held in Egypt later this month will help stabilize Syria's war-torn neighbor.
"We are with Iraq's security and with halting this cross-border infiltration into Iraq," al-Sharaa told reporters after his meeting with President Hosni Mubarak.
Iraq's interim government and the United States have been pushing Iraq's neighbors, especially Syria, to secure their borders to prevent foreign fighters from neighboring Arab states and elsewhere to enter Iraq and attack coalition forces.
Middle East states and the powerful Group of Eight industrial nations are expected to throw their support behind the Iraqi interim government's efforts toward stability at a global conference scheduled Nov. 22-23 in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. China, the United Nations, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference and the European Union also will participate.
Al-Sharaa said Iraq's interior minister, Falah Naqib, was due in Damascus soon to sign an agreement on cooperating to control the porous border.
Iraqi authorities have closed a border crossing point with Syria, and US troops have sealed the main highway into Fallujah, Iraq, where about 10,000 US troops are massing for a major assault.
An estimated 1,200 hardcore insurgents are believed to be operating in Fallujah - at least half of them Iraqis. They are bolstered by cells believed to have up to 2,000 fighters in the surrounding towns and countryside.
On other issues, al-Sharaa said he and Mubarak discussed the situation in the Palestinian territories in view of Yasser Arafat's grave illness. He called on rival Palestinian factions to pull together.
"National unity is the key to achieving Palestinian rights and national consensus is essential to regaining the occupied territories," al-Sharaa said.
The only thing that will change these Syrian Baathist terrorist swine will be their removal from power.
Steadfast Syrian border guard.
Syria and Iran are about to get an extremely rude awakening.
Seems a little late for that, doesn't it?
ummm...
Didn't we seal the border this morning?
Assad must have found a new and better route. The filthy, lyin' Ba'athist.
The mandate that GW got this last Tuesday will have big impacts in with the leaders of Syria and Iran.
They know that they have two choices:
1. Do what Krazy Khaddafi did.
2. Or they will end up like the $oddomite and his two sons.
"Middle East states and the powerful Group of Eight industrial nations are expected to throw their support behind the Iraqi interim government's efforts toward stability at a global conference scheduled Nov. 22-23 in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik."
Prime target for jihad terrorist bombing.
So soon after the election? Even Syria was waiting to see if Kerry won, in which case they would not have bothered. Now there must be some collective skidmarks and dry heaving in their corridors of power, hence the sudden overtones of co-operation.
Syris may soon have to worry about "infiltrators" heading in the other direction.
Too late, Syria.
They were hoping Kerry won so they could continue to produce terror in the region.
Prime target for jihad terrorist bombing.
"The Boeing 737 crashed after taking off from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik on Saturday (January 3, 2004), killing everyone on board. Most of the passengers were French tourists. Many children were among the dead.
French experts arrived at the scene yesterday with specialist equipment to help recover bodies, wreckage and flight data recorders from the crash site 11 kilometres offshore in 1300 metres of water. French and Egyptian officials said there was nothing to indicate the crash was anything but an accident." link
"At least 23 Israelis were killed in an explosion at the Hilton hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba, Egyptian police sources said. They said a second explosion was heard in the Sinai desert region of Nuaiba, between the Red Sea resorts of Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh."link 2
Anyone seeing a trend developing?
Doesn't it though, this is going to be an interesting transition.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Carpet-bomb Damascus.
Oops, there went a WMD cache.
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