Syria: Army deaths from militant campaign
Syria is facing a violent campaign by Islamist militants and six border soldiers died after attacks from inside Iraq.
Thursday, 09.08.2007.
15:23
Syria: Army deaths from militant campaign
"We are conducting operations against terrorist cells and we have taken martyrs," Mohammad Mansoura, head of the Political Security branch of Syria's intelligence apparatus, told a closed door session of an international security conference on Iraq."Raids have yielded arsenals of weapons including suicide explosive belts.
"Our border forces have come under 100 attacks from inside Iraq. Six soldiers died and 17 where injured," Mansoura said.
A translation of Mansoura's speech was obtained by Reuters.
Mansoura said security forces had foiled several attacks in addition to the few known ones, such as the failed attempt to blow up the U.S. embassy in Damascus last year.
Mansoura dismissed U.S. accusations that Syria is letting militants cross into Iraq to fight U.S. forces there and repeated the official line that Islamist militants were as much a threat to Syria as to Iraq.
Syria is ruled by the secular Baath Party, which crushed a revolt led by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s.
Western diplomats have questioned whether Syria has softened its stance against militants as a way of countering U.S. pressure and showing that its secular system is the only guarantor of stability.
Mansoura said Syria was resolutely against the spread of militant Islamist influence in the region.
"We view the attacks that have spared nothing in Iraq as an attempt to destroy the Iraqi people and a threat that could expand to the region," Mansoura told the meeting.
Officials from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Britain and the United States are in the second day of closed talks aimed at coming up with security cooperation measures to help stop the violence in Iraq and attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Syria recently condemned attacks against Iraqi forces as "terrorism" and backed explicitly the Shiite-led government in Baghdad for the first time.
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