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Iraqis move troops to Syrian border
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A member of the Iraqi parliaments security & defense committee on Saturday termed as correct a decision to put more troops on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, calling for a comprehensive strategic plan to prevent any infiltrations into the Iraqi territories. The decision, a correct and useful one although it came late, would have a positive effect to curb the number of Syrian militants entering Iraq, Adel Birwari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.Maj. General Tareq al-Asal, the Anbar province police chief, had said on Friday that orders were given by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to deploy army and police forces on the Iraqi-Syrian borders to prevent any infiltrations and enhance control and monitoring points. Iraqi-Syrian relations have been recently strained after the bloody Aug. 19 bombing attacks that left 82 people killed and 1203 others wounded. The Iraqi government accused Baathists residing in Syria of involvement in the blasts and called on Syria to hand them over. Maliki had said that the attack on two sovereign ministries the foreign affairs and finance is a major crime and would only prolong the Iraqi peoples suffering, adding the crisis with Syria is not new. Posted by: Steve White 2009-09-06 |
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