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Iraq Masses Security Forces Along Syria Border as Tensions Mount
on September 5, 2009 by Purger in International News, Iraq, War, Comments (0)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered thousands of additional national police deployed to the border with Syria, saying it was needed to prevent insurgents from infiltrating into the nation. Tensions between Iraq and Syria have been rising in recent weeks as Iraq has sought to implicated Syria in last month’s major Baghdad suicide bombings.
The two nations withdrew their respective ambassadors in August, after Iraq demanded that Syria hand over top Ba’athists and Syria refused. The Ba’athist Party of Iraq was in power until the 2003 US invasion, and many of its Sunni followers fled to neighboring Syria, where their own Ba’athist Party is still in power.
