http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050127/API/501270897&cachetime=5Published January 27. 2005 2:05PM
Baath Backers, Extremists Slip Into Iraq
By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
Iraqis loyal to deposed leader Saddam Hussein, as well as Islamic extremists, are still slipping into the country from neighboring Syria and Iran to bolster the insurgency, the national security adviser to interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Thursday.
"Unfortunately, we have two - if I can put it this way - `naughty-boy' neighbors - Iran and Syria," Kasim Daoud said in a video-teleconference session from Baghdad with reporters at the Pentagon.
He said most of the infiltrations are from Iraq's western border, which it shares with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and he accused Syrian authorities of conspiring to assist the insurgency.
"Our intelligence information ... shows the involvement of some of the Syrian security authorities in these activities," Daoud said, speaking in English.
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