| Just returning the favor... |
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's top diplomat on Thursday said he had "solid information" that al-Qaida militants were crossing from Iraq to Syria to carry out attacks, warning of a violent spillover that could shake the Middle East.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Baghdad had for years urged Damascus to clamp down on militant traffic as Sunni fighters headed from Syria to aid the Iraqi insurgency.
"Now their direction is the other way around," Zebari told reporters in Baghdad. "We have solid information and intelligence that members of al-Qaida's terrorist network have gone to Syria," he said, without elaborating. "Our main concern, to be honest with you, is about the spill over -- about extremist, terrorist groups taking root in neighboring countries." |