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2005-02-27 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-02-27 4:40:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Otherwise known as the Six of Diamonds.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-02-27 4:52:55 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-02-27 4:52:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 otherwise known as the truncheon bag

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-27 11:41:24 AM|| 2005-02-27 11:41:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I always like the real McCoy in fat ladies. Is that Fred? The question has never been answered.

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-27 12:36:41 PM|| 2005-02-27 12:36:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Whoa, looks like the Syrians turned him and a bunch of others over to the Iraqis. An Iraq that looks now to be a runaway success and a lebanon screaming for freedom have put the fear of Allen into em.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2005-02-27 2:25:45 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2005-02-27 2:25:45 PM|| Front Page Top

MOUSTACHE IS FAMILLIAR!

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-27 2:35:47 PM|| 2005-02-27 2:35:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Syrians are calling this a "Goodwill" gesture. It's really an application of "American Hydralics"...i.e. PRESSURE!!

It's amazing what can happen when the bad guys KNOW that our President has a VERY LOW tolorance for bullshit.

Posted by Justrand 2005-02-27 3:03:23 PM|| 2005-02-27 3:03:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes the Syrians apparently turned him over to our side.

But, and this is an important but, they haven't turned over the bank accounts of Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan or any of the other thugs.

I think the deal Syria is proposing here is obvious.

Posted by mhw 2005-02-27 3:08:18 PM|| 2005-02-27 3:08:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Associated Press now saying that 29 others were also handed over!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Posted by Tom 2005-02-27 3:12:56 PM|| 2005-02-27 3:12:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 From #8 link - A third Iraqi official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said Syrian security forces expelled al-Hassan from Syria into Iraq after he and his supporters had been turned back in an earlier attempt to cross the Syrian border into Lebanon and Jordan.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-27 3:28:41 PM|| 2005-02-27 3:28:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 If I were a CEO of Bush Valve Inc., I would try to cook a bit more. Who knows what else may pan out.
It's workin' so keep on cookin'.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-27 3:37:06 PM|| 2005-02-27 3:37:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe the Syrians are trying to sacrifice a few lambs to save Sammy's gold for themselves.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-27 3:46:54 PM|| 2005-02-27 3:46:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Saddam, Hasan, Eason Jordan, Ward Churchill; the enemy leadership is unraveling one string at a time.....

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-02-27 4:21:07 PM|| 2005-02-27 4:21:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Pressuring Syria appears to be getting easier. We (and many Lebanese) just pinned the Hariri boom on them and Israel just implicated them in the most recent car bombing. Even if they did not do these things, we ratchet up the pressure. Sucks to be them. We can do this now that W is reelected and has 4 more years to squeeze. That must seem like a decade to Assad.

Posted by JAB 2005-02-27 4:26:17 PM|| 2005-02-27 4:26:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 JAB
Actually we are not the only ones, not even the most important ones, pressuring Syria. The Syrians are now have pissed off Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, France, the US and the PA.

Turkey is neutral here. Iran is friendly but undependable.

Yes. It has to suck being Assad this week.

Posted by mhw 2005-02-27 6:43:43 PM|| 2005-02-27 6:43:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Perhaps we circulated some pre-release copies of the "55 most wanted Syrians" playing card pack?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-02-27 7:03:41 PM|| 2005-02-27 7:03:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Classical_Liberal, that just made my day. Thanks.

Posted by RWV 2005-02-27 8:17:25 PM|| 2005-02-27 8:17:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 MHW, I agree that we're not the only ones on Syria's case but am pleased that seem to be exploiting the situation effectively. This is not always the case.

Posted by JAB 2005-02-27 8:21:37 PM|| 2005-02-27 8:21:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 One has to wonder how this relates to the sacking of the former head of the Syrian Secret Police or what ever he was after Hariri assassination? I also wonder how mush the Assad clan didn't know about support for Iraqi Baath Party members and just how many of them are in Syria and what they are up to? It's true they have to have some knowledge but how much?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-27 9:36:13 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-02-27 9:36:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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