bushgang holding 700 + trucks from going back to Syria

[donsu]

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=17479

U.S. and Iraqi forces prevent Syrian trucks from crossing border

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In rising tensions between Iraq and its neighbor Syria, Iraqi and U.S. forces stopped more than 700 Syrian trucks from returning to Syria after unloaded produce and other merchandise in Iraq, Syrian customs official, Shehadeh al-Hussein said.

He said Iraqi authorities allowed non-Syrian trucks to pass but banned those with Syrian license plates from entering, while often directing insults at their drivers.

Hussein, who is director of the Customs Authority in the northeastern province of Hassakeh, said some of the drivers have been stranded for up to 18 days on the Yaaroubiyya crossing, some 780 kilometers northeast of Damascus. Many had little or no food, he said.

He said some trucks passed but only after paying around $100 to bribe Iraqi officials.

A meeting was held with Iraqi customs officials to find a solution, he said, "but none seemed forthcoming."
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and that record breaking sand storm (global warming):

Nearly 1,000 cases of suffocation were reported at the city's Yarmuk Hospital which saw one 60-year-old woman die, while hundreds of other people visited private clinics and family doctors as fog-like dust sat over the city.


700 trucks is a lot of trucks

[peacetalksforall]

1. No solutions were forthcoming....how about not making people

pay a bribe...and how about getting some food to these people?

[DemInDistress]

2. its that fucking asshole

" CHIMPUS MAXIMUS" INSITGATING A WAR WITH SYRIA...