Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Tom K]

"We're seeing them [Syrian fighters in Iraq] in the greatest density,"

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Officials said the Pentagon has also been alarmed by Syrian recruitment of Arab volunteers to fight for the Saddam regime. Officials said many, if not most, of the estimated 5,000 volunteers were Syrian nationals or residents. Many of these volunteers continue to kill U.S. soldiers in Baghdad despite the collapse of the Saddam regime and his military.

"We're seeing them [Syrian fighters in Iraq] in the greatest density," Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director for operations at U.S. Central Command, said. "We also know that there were attempts to enter from Syria and some recruiting occurred in Syria. While we suspect that may well have been Iraqi intelligence service doing that work, it still came from that direction. That's why we keep referring to Syria. It's just the role that Syria has been involved in in this case."


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