WASHINGTON — Iran has deployed 10,000 elite troops in Syria to protect the regime of President Bashar Assad and has been in effective control of the country for the past week, the opposition said.
The Reform Party of Syria said Iran has deployed its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria to bolster Syria's defense, Middle East Newsline reported. The Washington-based opposition group said the IRGC contingent in Syria contains 10,000 troops, with headquarters in the northern province of Homs.
"In essence, the IRGC now occupies Syria and has become its de facto ruler," RPS spokesman Farid Ghadry said. "Syria has become the 32nd province of Iran."
Cable points to Derna, Libya as 'wellspring' of Islamist terrorism
A classified cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli from June 8, 2008 identified the eastern port town of Derna, Libya as a hot bed of Islamist terrorism. The cable said Derna's Baab al-Shiha neighborhood, site of the town's old fort, is the location of "a large number of the Libyan foreign fighters identified in documents captured during September's Objective Massey operation in Iraq."
So now you know why syria is not on the receiving end of ze bam’s wrath. And you also know why the saudis are appeased...for the moment.
Just don’t get your hopes up that oil is going to cost less any time soon. They don’t need to cut off our arms and legs. They are charging us arms and legs for their damn oil. They are going to drive the world into recession and only then, about the same time we refuse to give them our first born children for oil, will the price drop. Slowly.