[KriegerGeist]

We need to take care of this threat before it becomes another headquarters of terror from Syria to disrupt post-war Iraq.

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[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

What's that police term for following the bad guys across the state border?

[Enterprise]

The henchmen who fled won't be sleeping too well. On the one hand I can bet Syria will only tolerate them as long as they have money and shut up. On the other hand, they have to worry about strange visitors in the night. They are not exempt from the war on terror just because they are a few miles away in Syria. And who knows? Perhaps in the near future they, and Assad's henchmen will have to flee to Libya.

[geedee]

I wonder if Assad Jr. can spell JDAM?

[Bluntpoint]

"Saddam's Henchmen Are Confirmed To Be In Syria"

Chirac and Shroeder?

[bert]

...the most senior of Saddam's henchmen are confirmed to be in Syria.....

Unsubstantiated allegation. No names , no wives names, no photos, nothing but some salable words on a page.

[Servant of the Nine]

At least one of them is dead, hanged by an angry mob. There is some popular revenge, and we may not be able to stop it.

Why would we want to?

So9

[ZULU]

Right.

It looks like Iraq was structured very closely along Afghanistan Taliban lines: a foreign mercenary force, staffed by Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, Saudis and other fundamentalist nuts supressing a native population and taking the entire state over and using it like a virus uses a body cell for a host - to produce more terrorism eslewhere.

They have to do something about Syria until these stupid, fanatical haters get the message.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

His henchmen? But where are the dastardly masterminds associated with this evil-doer?

Sometimes I feel like I'm reading a Batman comic book when I see these reports.

(My apologies for the interruption. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.)

[BenLurkin]

For what its worth, Phil Hendrie said days ago that Saddam himself is in Syria at a resort hotel on the beach. Now, Phil usually is a comdeidian but for some reason seems dead serious about this. For what its worth.

[doug from upland]

Syria should have learned quite a lesson. Perhaps this is what we should do diplomatically first:

1. Demand that all money taken from Iraq be returned and cooperate with freezing assets

2. Turn over for trial those who are suspected of war crimes.

3. Give them specific intel about terrorist training camps and tell them to destroy them.

4. Give them a list of other bad guys suspected to be in their country for an "interview" with us.

5. Present to them their own Resolution 1441. I think that we just showed the world what full compliance means. If they want to cooperate with the UN this time, that's fine. If not, that's fine, too.

6. Release political prisoners and immediately end human rights abuses.

7. End all funding of terrorism anywhere in the world.

It is their choice to do it the easy way or the hard way.

[hripka]

Looks like they need a place to stay after listing their last residence for sale!

[Cachelot]

WooHoo! Bashar, you're toast :))).

[ex-Texan]

*Bump* !!

[Mister Magoo]

DEBKA reported this over a week ago. I loathe to admit it, but DEBKA scooped the world on this one.

[b4its2late]

Syria might just want to think REAL, REAL hard about harboring these criminals......

[Cicero]

Over the past year there have been reports that Saddam moved many of his palace treasures and weapons out of Iraq into Syria and other places. I believe that in the first Gulf War some of them went to Sudan, and Saddam's air force was flown to fields in Iran.

A lot of this stuff cross the borders months ago.

Now the question is, do we want to do a hot pursuit, or a deliberate pursuit. Any way you slice it, Syria and Iran are next on the list. Although I simply can't imagine that they would be stupid enough not to surrender Saddam's henchmen if Bush asks, after seeing what happened to the Taliban under similar circumstances.