One extra bit of news. This once again an excerpt from Debka.
US special forces blew up the Iraqi-Syrian pipeline that was carrying illegal oil exports from Mosul and Kirkuk in the north to the Syrian Mediterranean oil terminal on the Banias for sale overseas, as well as the Syrian-Iraq railroad that was Saddam s only route for importing war supplies. Nonetheless, Syrian president Basher Assad kept the smuggling routes running with the help of giant tanker trucks prepared in advance; weapons and arms components are reaching Iraq by means of trucks and other vehicles impounded by Syrian troops.
Assad also roped in his military intelligence and transport commands to enlist and move thousands of volunteers from Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Syria across the border to Baghdad in hired buses and trucks. They are given weapons and their families get cash payments. Assad is also forcing Damascus-based Palestinian groups Hamas, Jihad Islami, Jibril, Popular Front etc. - to enlist their followers for Saddam s war against the Americans.
Thursday, hundreds of Lebanese Hizballah fighters were taken in convoy to Iraq to join Saddam s army in an operation organized by Syria.
Last week, an American F-15 warplane fired a rocket at a Syrian bus killing five passengers, who turned out to be Palestinian volunteers on their way to Baghdad. Syria complained and Washington apologized, but both knew
that the American rocket was a last warning to the Syrian president to halt his aid to Saddam Hussein. That warning was not heeded.
Not everything these guys publish pans out. But the above was quite interesting and scary.
US special forces blew up the Iraqi-Syrian pipeline that was carrying illegal oil exports from Mosul and Kirkuk in the north to the Syrian Mediterranean oil terminal on the Banias for sale overseas, as well as the Syrian-Iraq railroad that was Saddam s only route for importing war supplies. Nonetheless, Syrian president Basher Assad kept the smuggling routes running with the help of giant tanker trucks prepared in advance; weapons and arms components are reaching Iraq by means of trucks and other vehicles impounded by Syrian troops.
Assad also roped in his military intelligence and transport commands to enlist and move thousands of volunteers from Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Syria across the border to Baghdad in hired buses and trucks. They are given weapons and their families get cash payments. Assad is also forcing Damascus-based Palestinian groups Hamas, Jihad Islami, Jibril, Popular Front etc. - to enlist their followers for Saddam s war against the Americans.
Thursday, hundreds of Lebanese Hizballah fighters were taken in convoy to Iraq to join Saddam s army in an operation organized by Syria.
Last week, an American F-15 warplane fired a rocket at a Syrian bus killing five passengers, who turned out to be Palestinian volunteers on their way to Baghdad. Syria complained and Washington apologized, but both knew
that the American rocket was a last warning to the Syrian president to halt his aid to Saddam Hussein. That warning was not heeded.
Not everything these guys publish pans out. But the above was quite interesting and scary.