Terrorist Traffic Via Syria Again Inching Up -- Washington PostPipeline to Iraq Back In Business After Lull
Last October, as the Bush administration was touting a dramatic drop in the number of suicide bombings in Iraq, four young Tunisian men left their homes for Libya and then headed to Syria. There, they were met at the Damascus airport and taken to a safe house.
Six tedious months passed until their handlers felt that it was safe to move the men again. In April, they were smuggled across the Iraqi border; within days, two were dead, among the suicide bombers who have killed at least 370 Iraqis in a wave of attacks over the past several weeks.
The third Tunisian disappeared. The fourth was captured and, according to a senior U.S. military official, provided interrogators with this account of their travels.
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My Comment: It appears that everything is being positioned for the eventual U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. Since this spike in bombings and sectarian killings, the fear among many in the "know" has been the inevitable return of civil war. This report gives an indication that a lot of these fears are justified.
