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Washington DC, December 3, 2004/UPI News/ -- An investigation by The Telegraph has discovered Syrian mosques are providing men, money and weapons to Iraqi insurgents, the newspaper said Thursday.
Syria's Ambassador to Britain Sami Khaimi denied a report.Iraqi exiles told the newspaper members of Saddam Hussein's former Baathist regime pay $3,000 a month to the families of the fighters.While the Syrian government insists it is doing everything possible to stem the flow of people and goods along its porous 400-mile border with Iraq, the newspaper said it had learned several hundred Syrians are recruited, equipped and sent to Iraq every month.
Under intense pressure from the United States and the interim Iraqi government, Syria recently began building an earthen rampart along its frontier with Iraq and has closed crossing points."We are doing our best," said Adham Marmadi, a Syrian foreign ministry official. "We have long borders that cannot be controlled fully."The U.S. military estimates there are as many as 2,000 foreign fighters in Iraq, many from Syria.
But Khami disputed the report.
"It is known that Damascus stepped up security measures on the border to curb infiltration of foreign fighters into Iraq and I don't know where the writer of the report met the presumed fighters and took their pictures," Khaimi told UPI.
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