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ABC News: Syrian Envoy Says Many Arrested Near Iraq
2005-05-26
ABC News says so, so it must be true! Edited for the amusing bits.
Syria has arrested more than 1,200 people trying to cross the border into Iraq in recent weeks and sent many of them back to their own countries, Syria's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday. Fayssal Mekdad said Syria suspected that the people arrested mostly foreigners intended to carry out illegal activities in Iraq, so they were arrested and sent back to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya and other countries. "We gave a lot of information to the United States on these issues, which prevented many attacks, but regrettably, the United States did not recognize such kind of help," he said in an interview.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Hey, we have a lot of experience with this. We do it on the Mexican border. Catch them, send them back, catch them again later.
Unless they jail these people or give them to the Iraq's, this is a joke.
Posted by: plainslow   2005-05-26 12:32  

#3  Is there not a more positive spin to this? At least they acknowledge people are trying to cross from Syria to Iraq. The first step is to admit there is a problem, yes?
Posted by: Bobby   2005-05-26 12:24  

#2  A Syrian envoy said this? And a Syrian UN ambassador to boot? All the more reason to put a rather small value on this - like as in $.02.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-05-26 10:49  

#1  token arrests mean nothing, putz! Shut down your border, and arrest the Baathists that fled Iraq and are leading the insurgents, or face periodic invasion via "hot pursuit"
Posted by: Frank G   2005-05-26 10:10  

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