Report: U.S. team arrives in Syria to calms tensions in the North

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An American delegation has secretly arrived
from Iraq to the Kurd region in northern Syria,
in an effort to calm tensions, following several
days of riots which came on the heels of a
violent soccer game between a Kurdish-backed
and a mostly Arab-backed team, Kurdish
sources and Syrian exiles in Europe told
Haaretz on Monday.

The information was also published on
Kurdish websites in Europe.

The U.S. team, which includes intelligence
officers, contacted senior officers in a Syrian
delegation sent to the region by President
Bashar Assad to negotiate with local leaders.

According to the sources, two U.S. helicopters
arrived Sunday from Iraq to the city of
Qamishli on the Turkish border, where the
riots began.

Haaretz

[Coventina]

1. Ahhh! So THAT'S how we are going to get troops into Syria!

I was wondering how the PNACers were going to finesse it.....

[jpak]

2. Football Hooligans of Mass Destruction Related Programs

FHMDRP's

gotta luv it...

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3. They seem to have been invited, or anyway, they have

permission from Damascus to be there and help negotiate.
I suspect that is because we are more trusted with the Kurds
than Assad would be.

[bobthedrummer]

4. We have secret bases in the neighborhood, especially in Israel.

http://www.datafilter.com/mc/washPostUndergroundMilitary.html