Posted on 09/17/2005 1:48:59 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
There is no body of text, just a nice map and dates and battle reports. Notice the various areas of population density verse areas where one would assume rightly there is nothing but barren desert landscape. Do take note of the areas along the Syrian border that are not fit for easy foot travel. Some of those roads may not even be roads in the conventional sense, where they are always passable by cars for instance. So why do I point this out? Well for those that have not been given an opportunity to see a more detailed map, that it is not so easy to just walk across the border of Syria with perhaps a five day supply of water and food, and meet up in some designated town. I sense some folks seem to think terrorist just pour across the border with no obstacles to hinder their movements. And do be assured many of those hundreds of square miles get 7/24 air recon.
I have a strong feeling that many of the foreign terrorist have been in Iraq for a long time and just wait to received orders. I make no claim to having some authoritative level of understanding just a strong hunch. As for the recent discoveries that many of the foreign terrorist are in the say 15-17 year old bracket does not mean they are any better equiped by youth to travel by foot great distances. Especially if they have not been hardened and received diciplined military training. So if what I say has some truth, then it would appear the only way in is by car/truck on major roads via. major check points. And those are being or are now closed downed.
Go here for some detail:
http://billroggio.com/
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Thanks for URL. I visit Bill's site on regular basis.
As time moves on and pressures continue to be applied, these countries realize they must crack down on not just internal groups that threaten their monarchies, governments etc., but that they must start to play ball with the world communicty that is demanding they start to clean house. Let us not forget until recently any terrorist cell could operate freely in say London. Now obviously Britain wants no parts of Islamic terrorism, but the fact remains they and many European nations had let the cancer take root. So we must not just point the finger at countries under the yoke of Islam.
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Roger that.
Syria condemns Baghdad bombings as acts of terrorism 14 Sep 2005 18:45:08 GMT Source: Reuters
"The Syrian source did not comment on a warning by U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday that Syria could face more isolation if it did not cooperate with Baghdad on security."
From what I read in middle east papers,Syria is feeling a bit isolated.
Good article which voices yet again Syria's denial that they sponsor terrorism. What the article does not counter with are the known terrorist camps in say, Halab (Aleppo) Syria located in the NW quadrant of the country some 60 miles south of the Turkish border. Bashar continues to walk a tight rope where he has little power to really control the many Islamofacist groups that operate rather freely in his country. He continues to hope we will not start to take out known camps in his country with cruise missiles and perhaps over dominating air power that would threaten to destroy his airforce and all ground defenses and offensive SAM sites etc., in order to protect our fighter bombers that would go in to target known camps. As has been discussed in other posts in the past few months Assad is between a rock and a hard place at best.
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Interesting Syrian view of the situation.
As the article states:
"All these developments do not seem to have meant much to the Syrian government. Hence, while the storm is gathering pace, Syria's response has so far been limited to denying US allegations."
I could easily be convinced and have stated elsewhere that Assad may not be the one who runs the show. He may have advisors that tell him what to do in any given situation. Or due to so many waring factions, religious, political, others, he may simply feel doing nothing is better then making a move to real action and stiring up those hornet nests he dreads. One can only think he fears appearing as a weak leader in a Muslim country. Allowing so to speak, the west to dictate policy to him. These damn people are so stiff necked and rigid in their ways, he may have little room to act. Certainly he does not have the brutal control his father had. Perhaps he is barely hanging on to the presidency for all we know. And fears any serious action taken to hand over the Saddamist to Iraq and arrest all known terrorist groups will find him either with a bullet in the head or simply kicked out of power.
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