US pushes for punitive action against Syria

[ECH1969]

The US secretary of state, Condoleeza Rice, discussed plans for punitive action against Syria with other western foreign ministers yesterday over its alleged involvement in Iraq, Lebanon and Israel.
The US is contemplating diplomatic rather than military action, freezing the Syrian government out of the international community.

Ms Rice used a meeting in London of foreign ministers from the Group of Eight - the US, Britain, France, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia - to mobilise international support against Syria.

She was responding to a report that a senior al-Qaida member, Abdullah al-Roshoud, has been killed in Iraq close to the border with Syria. A website statement purporting to be from the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said that Roshoud, who was on a Saudi wanted list, was killed in a US air strike.

Many of the foreign insurgents in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia and the US claims they travel to Iraq via Syria.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,13031,1513429,00.html?gusrc=rss

[lovuian]

1. Oh Ya like Japan and Canada are going after Syria and Russia

sells them millitary goodies RIGHTTTTTTTTTT!!!

[bemildred]

2. LOL. Right.

:rofl::rofl:

[Matilda]

3. Delete.

[lebkuchen]

4. Condoleeezzza: War-monger for the ages

[Up2Late]

5. "...US is contemplating diplomatic...action...?!?"

Aren't we already doing this, isn't this like saying, The U.S. is going to embargo Cuba?

[Auntie Bush]

6. Weren't the Syrian's our allies until they wouldn't let us cross over

their country when we invaded Iraq? Bush pays back/gets even again...
like he did to Saddam and Wilson & Plame. What a guy!

[Malikshah]

7. First things first. Punitive action against her criminal ass

as well as Dickies, Dubyas, Colins, Rummys..etc.

Then we'll see if there's any more tar and feathers left.

[Spazito]

8. Oh, yeah, right, Syria must have said, "Don't send us anymore

'extraordinary rendition 'guests' for 'questioning' ala Mahar Arar and Condi and her 'husband' must be miffed.

[bribri16]

9. So now Syria is involved in Israel? I thought it was the other way around

n/t

[IChing]

10. Wait a minute, how can they get to Syria without crossing Iraq?

"Many of the foreign insurgents in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia and the US claims they travel to Iraq via Syria."

Unless, they fly across Jordan or Iraq to reach Syria?

The largest border Iraq has with another nation is Saudia Arabia.

What is this crap?

The foreign insurgents are from Saudi Arabia
are we listening to this people?

[IChing]

11. More on the Saudia Border with source.

They have a teleport machine the klingons gave them to come in from Syria.
Do you believe propaganda when you read it
or is logic no longer valid?


http://www.iags.org/n0121042.htm

Yet, there is ample evidence to suggest that Saudi citizens not only cross the 475-mile-long border with Iraq in order to join the jihad against the U.S. but that they also make some of the most dangerous terrorists U.S. forces face. According to the Financial Times, up to 3,000 Saudi men have gone missing in Saudi Arabia in recent months. al-Qaeda sympathizers who have heeded calls for holy war by Osama Bin Laden and other preachers find the Saudi-Iraqi desert border easy to cross. Pressure on Islamists in Saudi Arabia since the bombings in May and November in Riyadh has increased the motivation of the jihadists to flee to Iraq's Sunni triangle in search of safe houses. Back in August, a number of Saudis were captured seeking to attack American troops in Iraq. Iraqi policeman guarding a checkpoint outside the Baghdad Hotel on October 12, testified that the suicide bomber who blew up the hotel killing eight people chatted with him in a dialect of Arabic which sounded Saudi or Yemenite. The more recent suicide attack, on October 27, against the Red Cross headquarters and three police stations in Baghdad was carried out by four bombers, at least two of which appear to have been Saudis.

Despite evidence that some of the most dangerous and suicidal Arab terrorists come in from Saudi Arabia, Washington still refuses to publicly discuss the role of Saudis in the Iraqi insurgency or refer to Saudi Arabia in the same tone and wording used in the case of Iran and Syria.