Iraq plans talks with Syria on insurgent flow

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Iraqi PM says he will hold security talks with Syria to demand action against insurgent infiltrations into Iraq.

By Hande Culpan - ANKARA
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13559

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said Friday that Baghdad would hold talks with Damascus soon to demand action against insurgents infiltrating from Syria and warned that his country would not tolerate threats from its neighbours.

"There are some armed groups infiltrating from Syria. We will talk about how much the Syrian government knows about these infiltrations," Jaafari told reporters here after meeting his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"There will be a visit to Syria soon and one of the dossiers will be security," he said through a translator.

The United States has repeatedly accused Syria of aiding the Iraqi insurgency by supplying foreign fighters or failing to prevent militants from crossing the border into Iraq, a charge Damascus denies.


Looks like another in a series of public condemnations of Syria for allegedly harboring terrorists across its border. U.S. border incursions have increased in the past few days as well as local protests over the same.

protests over U.S. border incursions into Syria: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m11845&l=i&size=1&hd=0