Syria’s martyrdom superhighways

In today’s DC Examiner, Rowan Scarborough tells us that Syria is the entry-point for suicide bombers in Iraq;

Al-Qaida in Iraq is operating three main entry routes for suicide bombers coming into Iraq from Syria, despite more than three years of U.S. efforts to control the border and convince Damascus to evict the jihadists, an American military officer said Tuesday.

A bomber struck again in Iraq Tuesday, this time a woman who detonated a bomb under her black abaya, killing herself and 16 others at a police recruiting station. It could not be learned if she was an Iraqi or an imported terrorist. But the U.S. command says the vast majority of suicide bombers — al-Qaida’s principal means of attack — are foreigners.

This should delight Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who just last week announced to the world that Syria is the key to peace in the Middle East (if only the US and Israel would trust President Bashar Asad). Now she and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos hinted that they’d be willing to go to visit Holocaust-denier Ahmadinejad and do for Iran what they did in Syria – lend legitimacy to rogue entities in the Middle East.

This Op/Ed appeared in the Washington Times (h/t Dadmanly)on February 20th – well before Pelosi headed to Syria – I wonder if she confronted Assad about this intelligence;

  Regional intelligence services and inside sources from within Sunni officer corps opposed to the Assad regime have identified major foreign-fighter training camps in northern Syria and just outside Damascus overseen by Syrian Military Intelligence and run by former Iraqi Ba’athi Generals and senior Saddam Fedayeen commanders.
    One major foreign fighter camp exists in the Latakia province in northern Syria, a mountainous area replete with Syrian Military Intelligence facilities and wide swaths of ostensibly government property closed to the public. The Iraqi officer in charge there is one Maj. Gen. Majid Sulayman. Yet another such camp exists 40 kilometers to the west of the border town of Qamishli, which lies in the Kurdish area in the northeastern tip of Syria bordering Iraq and Turkey; it is run by Maj. Gen. Qays al-Adhami. The al-Shaybani camp lies 30 kilometers south of Damascus and also trains foreign fighters. The al-Ikhals camp lies in the heart of the Qaysun mountain range near Damascus.

Please read the entire details of the Op/Ed piece.

And AP reports that the Mahdi Army commanders admit they’ve trained their troops and receive material support in Iran;

Iranian intelligence operatives have been training Iraqi fighters inside Iran on how to use and assemble deadly roadside bombs known as EFPs, the U.S. military spokesman said today.
    Commanders of a splinter group inside the Shi’ite Mahdi Army militia have said that as many as 4,000 members of their organization were trained in Iran and that they have stockpiles of EFPs, weapons that cause great uneasiness among U.S. forces here because they penetrate heavily armored vehicles.
    U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell would not say how many militia fighters had been trained in Iran but said that questioning of fighters captured as recently as this month confirmed many had been in Iranian training camps.
    “We know that they are being in fact manufactured and smuggled into this country, and we know that training does go on in Iran for people to learn how to assemble them and how to employ them. We know that training has gone on as recently as this past month from detainees? debriefs,” Gen. Caldwell said at a weekly briefing

So Pelosi and Lantos are hinting at a trip to Iran while Iran is supplying the militias that are keeping us involved in Iraq. How much sense does that make?

This why Americans don’t trust Democrats with our foreign policy. Their refusal to accept the realities of the world color their politics. They’re like children playing mock-UN in grade school.

The reason the President called Hussein, Iran and Kim Jong IL the Axis of Evil is because you can’t trust them. They talk out of both sides of their mouths and make public statements that they have no intention of following through. I guess that’s why Democrats have such a kinship with them – Democrats do the same thing before elections. Which might explain why Pelosi’s approval numbers are plummeting.

Category: Foreign Policy, Politics, Terror War