Syrian Airport Is Terror Hub

[JLB]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/20/154949.shtml?s=ic

Sen. Joe Lieberman says the great majority of foreign fighters who become suicide bombers in Iraq enter the country from Syria – and most arrive there by landing in the Syrian capital at Damascus International Airport.

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Lieberman asserts that cutting off the flow of terrorists traveling through Damascus is a key to success in Iraq.

"Al-Qaida in Iraq is sustained by a transnational network of facilitators and human smugglers, who replenish its supply of suicide bombers – approximately 60 to 80 Islamist extremists, recruited every month from across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and sent to meet their al-Qaida handlers in Syria, from where they are taken to Iraq to blow themselves up to kill countless others,” Lieberman writes.

[Gibby]

Air Syria, Come Bomb With Us

[Green Lantern]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/20/154949.shtml?s=ic

Sen. Joe Lieberman says the great majority of foreign fighters who become suicide bombers in Iraq enter the country from Syria – and most arrive there by landing in the Syrian capital at Damascus International Airport.

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Lieberman asserts that cutting off the flow of terrorists traveling through Damascus is a key to success in Iraq.
"Al-Qaida in Iraq is sustained by a transnational network of facilitators and human smugglers, who replenish its supply of suicide bombers – approximately 60 to 80 Islamist extremists, recruited every month from across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and sent to meet their al-Qaida handlers in Syria, from where they are taken to Iraq to blow themselves up to kill countless others,” Lieberman writes.



LOL.

I am sure. When you shut down the Damascus airport, it is a fact that the terrorists will all look around at each other in confusion, scratch their heads, shrug, and go home. There is NO other way into Iraq, afterall.

[TigerJ]

Good point, aquaman. I have no idea how much of Lieberman's perspective is based on fact versus opinion, but if there is one truth about terrorism it is that it is fluid. They know how to change and adapt. Should the US figure out how to cut off one access point, they will find another.

[Green Lantern]

Access points are the symptoms and controlling those has little effect on the disease.

[JLB]

LOL.

I am sure. When you shut down the Damascus airport, it is a fact that the terrorists will all look around at each other in confusion, scratch their heads, shrug, and go home. There is NO other way into Iraq, afterall.

funny stuff let's make it easy for em.

[nehemiah]

who is joe lieberman?

[Green Lantern]

funny stuff let's make it easy for em.

No, make it hard; survival of the fittest. We only want the toughest, meanest bad-asses to make it to Iraq.

[Green Lantern]

who is joe lieberman?

Apparently a guy who likes to stir the pot.

[JLB]

who is joe lieberman?

the guy you pray doesn't switch to become a Republican.:D

[nehemiah]

Apparently a guy who likes to stir the pot.:dunno:

[nehemiah]

the guy you pray doesn't switch to become a Republican.:D:dunno:

i sorta remember that he is a republican, right?

[JLB]

:dunno:

i sorta remember that he is a republican, right?

nope!

if he was the Republicans would be the majority party.

[Green Lantern]

:dunno:

You don't really think he doesn't know better than to make this sophomoric statement only for our benefit, huh?

[JLB]

who is joe lieberman?

Gore's former running mate almost your vice president.

[nehemiah]

never heard of him.

sorry.

[JLB]

never heard of him.

sorry.

you voted for him remember Gores V.P.