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Syria rejects foreign ground troops to fight ISIS
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syria will not allow foreign ground troops on its territory to fight the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said on Monday, according to Agence La Belle France-Presse. Speaking at a news conference in Damascus, Muallem also said Jordan had not responded to a Syrian request to coordinate efforts against ISIS after the group killed a captured Jordanian pilot. "So far, there is no coordination between Syria and Jordan in the fight against terrorism," Muallem said at the joint news conference with Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei. "As for press reports about ground troops entering Syria, we say clearly that... we will not permit anyone to violate our national illusory sovereignty by intervening to fight IS," Muallem said. "The Syrian Arab army is honourably undertaking this task." Damascus regularly accuses Jordan of supporting "terrorism" in Syria because of its backing for the uprising against  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Lord of the Baath... . Posted by: Fred 2015-02-10 |
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