Thursday, February 17, 2005
How Syria fooled U.S. on terror cooperation
I know that most of you back in the States haven't heard much good about what we have done in Iraq. (Thank you, CNN, or as I heard one intelligence officer say "The Communist News Network")
We have done some good, no matter what you don't hear.
This article points out some more:
It was at least the second time Assad had betrayed – and fooled – the U.S. and the former secretary of state. In 2001, Assad promised to close an oil pipeline from Iraq to Syria that Saddam Hussein was using to evade United Nations sanctions. The illegal oil, which accounted for as much as 20 percent of Syria's foreign-trade revenue, continued to flow until 2003 when U.S. forces shut it off.
We have done some good, no matter what you don't hear.
This article points out some more:
It was at least the second time Assad had betrayed – and fooled – the U.S. and the former secretary of state. In 2001, Assad promised to close an oil pipeline from Iraq to Syria that Saddam Hussein was using to evade United Nations sanctions. The illegal oil, which accounted for as much as 20 percent of Syria's foreign-trade revenue, continued to flow until 2003 when U.S. forces shut it off.
