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Syria gives passports to suicide bombers (ACT OF WAR)
The Times ^
| April 2, 2003
| Michael Binyon
Posted on 04/01/2003 2:24:56 PM PST by MadIvan
THE SAS has arrested four busloads of suspected suicide bombers and would-be fighters in Iraqs western desert.
The men, who are being held as prisoners of war, came from various Arab countries but all carried Syrian passports. They are thought to be among thousands of Arab zealots making their way to the battle front.
Syria has issued about 2,000 passports to people volunteering to fight for President Saddam Hussein in recent weeks, raising serious concerns in Britain and America, which suspects Damascus of smuggling war supplies to Iraq. The coalition is to protest to the Syrians.
Syrian officials have made no secret of their sympathy for the resistance of the Iraqi people to coalition attacks, although they have not voiced public support for Saddam.
Damascus has rejected accusations by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, that Syria has provided Iraq with night-vision goggles.
The big worry is that many of the volunteers receiving passports may be suicide bombers, including Palestinians hoping to avenge themselves for US support of Israel. A captured Iraqi general said last week that up to 4,000 suicide bombers were ready.
British sources believe that up to 600 volunteers have crossed from Syria into Iraq or are about to do so. Sending fighters to join a combatant army is a clear breach of neutrality. The Syrians are playing with fire, one source said yesterday.
In Jerusalem, Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli Defence Minister, said that Israel viewed as very grave Syrias role in helping the volunteers. He also issued a veiled warning to President Assad over comments in a Lebanese newspaper that Syria could be the next target in Americas War on Terror as long as Israel exists.
Mr Mofaz said that Mr Assad had effectively ruled out a peace agreement with Israel.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: actsofwar; assad; baath; baathism; baathists; baathparty; blair; bush; homocidebombings; iraq; iraqifreedom; passport; saddam; sas; syria; uk; us; war
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To: demnomo
Kill their wills with good chow, lots of sunshine, etc... ...Category-5 hurricanes...
To: MadIvan
Time to kick some B'aath
splish splash i wuz bombing some baaths
long about a sat night
Glub glub I fired cruise missles from my sub
and into old down town Baghdad
they wuz twisting and a screeching
moaning an a groaning
Cause Ima free Iraqi
and I wont be Saddams lackey
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posted on
04/01/2003 3:44:34 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: MHGinTN
I hope someone is watching for them ... (+) ... to apply rule 308. More likely rule 50 but also possibly rule 300.
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posted on
04/01/2003 3:59:03 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: Mister Magoo
Damascus, welcome to the party. My name is MOAB. A party bus needs some A-10 "party mix". Here's a USAF recipe.
The rounds are a "party mix" which consists of depleted uranium rounds followed by incendiary phosphorus.
To: MadIvan
Hmmmm....I wonder how the Worm will vote on Syria?
105
posted on
04/01/2003 4:58:50 PM PST
by
TheDon
( It is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response)
To: x1stcav
"get as many to make the trip as possible, and whisked them off to Gitmo. "Why bother with spending time and money to do anything with them, when we could just let them, by their own volition, walk into the meat grinder.
Personally I think we should be promoting this in the Arab world and clean up as much of the mess as we can in one fell swoop.
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posted on
04/01/2003 5:01:16 PM PST
by
Kerberos
(Ah yes the liberal democrats, united as ever in opportunism and error. Tony Blair 3/18/03)
To: MadIvan
Unless these guys are wearing the uniforms of the nations they come from, they are spies and should be hanged. That is within accepted military tradition
107
posted on
04/01/2003 5:01:57 PM PST
by
merak
To: MadIvan
President Bush should go to the UN and seek a resolution seeking sanctions against Syria.
(/sarcasm off)
108
posted on
04/01/2003 5:02:32 PM PST
by
PokeyJoe
(BBQ Iraqi Pork Ribs for Dinner.)
To: MadIvan
ok..........you asked for it
To: MadIvan
Sounds as if the Syrians don't really understand how GPS works.
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posted on
04/01/2003 5:09:24 PM PST
by
Mister Baredog
((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
To: Suburban Jim
Yup. God is reshaping the Middle East, and the coalition is His instrument for doing so. All those opposed identify themselves as the enemies of God that they are.
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posted on
04/01/2003 5:21:48 PM PST
by
laz17
(Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
To: jackbill
Once things are finished in Iraq, we might just want to exit through Syria. About a week or so before the war started, I saw an item on the Fox ticker about London asking that all U.K. subjects leave Syria. I never saw that item again.
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posted on
04/01/2003 5:31:09 PM PST
by
laz17
(Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
To: MadIvan
That's it, we should blast every bus coming out of Syria without delay.
Flatten it in sight of Syria's border.
113
posted on
04/01/2003 5:50:41 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Nox aeternus en pax.)
To: MadIvan
We should declare a quarantine on Iraq. Anyone ENTERING Iraq on a Syrian passport issued since March 19th should be shot on sight.
This would be legal under Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, Article 4, Part 61.
114
posted on
04/01/2003 6:00:27 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty" not the "Statue of Security.")
To: MadIvan
Syria ought to fire up all their armored and motorized divisions and head toward Bagdad before it's too late. Use it or lose it. How far will they get? 10 miles?
115
posted on
04/01/2003 6:02:43 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts: Proofs establish links)
To: MadIvan
Welcome to my road. Will that be fried or over easy.
116
posted on
04/01/2003 6:10:24 PM PST
by
snooker
To: unspun
LOL Practice run.
"Well, we could give them the dynamite to strap on, put them out in a fenced off area and tell them they can go to it."
To: x1stcav
I like your idea,But would rather they met AC-130 Spectre one night in the middle of the Iraqi desert.
There would be a lot less questions about "missing' extremists in a War Zone
118
posted on
04/01/2003 6:26:30 PM PST
by
HP8753
(Tagline Testing....1,2,3)
To: HP8753
All right. You guys have convinced me. Let's let their own god find them.
119
posted on
04/01/2003 6:29:28 PM PST
by
x1stcav
(HooAhh!)
To: MHGinTN
I hope someone is watching for them ... (+) ... to apply rule 308I hope we are smoking all these guys right at the border. This actually may be a useful tool in riding ourselves of potential future bombers.
Now would be a bad time to try and enter Iraq as we control all borders.
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