Syria 'tried to fuel holy war in Iraq against US and Britain' (Bremer)

[sabra]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/11/wbrem11.xml


Syria 'tried to fuel holy war in Iraq against US and Britain'

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria secretly incited Iraq's top Shia leader to declare holy war against US and British forces, according to Washington's former administrator in the country.

In his new book, My Year in Iraq, Paul Bremer said he heard the explosive intelligence in October 2003 as sectarian tensions soared across the country following the fall of Saddam Hussein.

The report came from an extremely senior source, the supreme leader of Iraq's majority Shia community, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

According to Mr Bremer, the news was passed to him by Mowaffak al-Rubaie, a senior Shia politician involved in negotiations with the ayatollah. The Syrian leader had apparently recalled the Shia-led uprising against the British in 1920 and urged the Shia to repeat history.

[Triana]

1. WHO is next on the PNAC list?

First, Iraq.
Next, Iran.
Third, Syria.

Why am I not surprised at these allegations? Here we friggin go again. Another lie. Another war.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Then they're off to destroy Venezuela, and Bolivia.

It just wouldn't be consistant if this MEpublican pResident didn't shed the blood of Latin American citizens just as did his father, Reagan, Nixon, and Eisenhower.

His "conscience" won't let him leave them in peace.

[daleo]

2. The nerve of Bremer and his ilk

They invade a country and then accuse other countries of interfering with their little invasion, as if they have some God given right to invade and kill wherever and whomever they please. Honestly, they really are insane. It's like Jack the Ripper complaining that a witness had the nerve to stare at him.

[saigon68]

13. Bremer on his Knees servicing the NEOCONS

The Neocons are smiling

[CoffeeCat]

3. Why yes Mr. Bremer--we all believe you...

...and I'm sure that you heard "this darn good intelligence" right after you spotted one of
them thar Iraqi mobile weapons labs units that was rolling toward aluminum tubes--inside of which were hidden weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons that would one day come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Isn't that right?

[hang a left]

4. I see....

Now we get to the gist of why this scumbag has been making the rounds. And everyone thought it was to tell us about prewar troop estimates?

[0rganism]

5. "tried"? If this is "tried", I don't want to see "succeeded".

And here Bremer is making the rounds, trying to convince the gullible that this wasn't a massively stupid act rooted in false pretenses. :dunce:

[shadowknows69]

6. We'd better hope

We're lucky it HASN'T been a full on holy war with all of the muslim world. The most powerful army in the world surrounded, is still surrounded. Not a particularly strategic position to be in. If all of the sudden Syria and Iran emptied their armies into Iraq to come after us it would be an armageddon scale bloodbath before we could either retreat or nuke the place into depression glassware.

[acmavm]

8. I don't know about you, but Jerry's credibility factor with me is about

as high as his competency factor. That was pretty well destroyed forever the day he hightailed it like a scared rabbit out of Iraq surrounded by his mercenary body guards. Oh, and when I found out about all the money that went missing. And how so many people died when he was over they supposedly taking charge. What was his title? Was it Viceroy or some damn dumb thing like that.

I have serious problems with Jerry and believing anything the lunkhead incompetent says.

[tanyev]

9. Goodness, Mr. Bremer is just full of stories now that he has a book

to publicize. If this was so urgent, why didn't he make it public in 2003?

[deminks]

10. Where is the missing money, scumbag?

That's the only thing I want to hear out of Bremer.

[karynnj]

11. Syria, a nation that has 17% Shite population and a Sunni majority

was urging a Shiite rebellion that, if the US left, would leave Iraq, their neighbor with a radical Shiite government that would likely ally itself with the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran. This seems fairly unbelievable to me. Other problems - would there be good lines of commincation between Syria and the Shiite Ayatollah? Why would the Syrians think that the Shiites would not remember their own history - also how well did that history work out for them? It looks to me as if it put the minority Sunnis in power.

[Megahurtz]

12. Why am I not surprised that Syria is next? n/t

[HuffleClaw]

14. wow, the agitprop is in full gear eh?

next they'll have him on the grassy knole.