"thunder" wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 16:54:10 +0000, NOYB wrote:


No, I pointed out that oil is one of the major reasons we went into Iraq
before Syria or Iran. But it's not *the* reason.

"American intelligence and State Department officials have told me that by
early 2002 Syria had emerged as one of the C.I.A.'s most effective
intelligence allies in the fight against Al Qaeda, providing an outpouring
of information that came to an end only with the invasion of Iraq."

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030728fa_fact

"The intelligence coöperation on Al Qaeda was important and effective," said
Martin Indyk, who served as Ambassador to Israel in the Clinton
Administration and is now director of the Saban Center. "But the Syrians
thought it would compensate for all their other games with Iraq and the
Palestinian terror organizations, and it doesn't."