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Just who these "Americans" might be, my source did not say. In the anarchic and panic-strickenworld of Iraq, there are many US groups - including countless outfits supposedly working for theAmerican military and the new Western-backed Iraqi Interior Ministry - who operate outside anylaws or rules. No one can account for the murder of 191 university teachers and professors sincethe 2003 invasion - nor the fact that more than 50 former Iraqi fighter-bomber pilots whoattacked Iran in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have been assassinated in their home towns in Iraq inthe past three years.Amid this chaos, a colleague of my source asked me, how could Syria be expected to lessen thenumber of attacks on Americans inside Iraq? "It was never safe, our border," he said. "DuringSaddam's time, criminals and Saddam's terrorists crossed our borders to attack our government. Ibuilt a wall of earth and sand along the border at that time. But three car bombs from Saddam'sagents exploded in Damascus and Tartous- I was the one who captured the criminals responsible.But we couldn't stop them."Now, he told me, the rampart running for hundreds of miles along Syria's border with Iraq hadbeen heightened. "I have had barbed wire put on top and up to now we have caught 1,500 non-Syrian and non-Iraqi Arabs trying to cross and we have stopped 2,700 Syrians from crossing ...Our army is there - but the Iraqi army and the Americans are not there on the other side."Behind these grave suspicions in Damascus lies the memory of Saddam's long friendship withthe United States. "Our Hafez el-Assad [the former Syrian president who died in 2000] learntthat Saddam, in his early days, met with American officials 20 times in four weeks. Thisconvinced Assad that, in his words, 'Saddam is with the Americans'. Saddam was the biggesthelper of the Americans in the Middle East (when he attacked Iran in 1980) after the fall of theShah. And he still is! After all, he brought the Americans to Iraq!"So I turn to a story which is more distressing for my sources: the death by shooting of BrigadierGeneral Ghazi Kenaan, former head of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon - an awesomelypowerful position - and Syrian Minister of Interior when his suicide was announced by theDamascus government last year.Widespread rumours outside Syria suggested that Kenaan was suspected by UN investigators ofinvolvement in the murder of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in a massive carbomb in Beirut last year - and that he had been "suicided" by Syrian government agents toprevent him telling the truth.Not so, insisted my original interlocutor. "General Ghazi was a man who believed he could giveorders and anything he wanted would happen. Something happened that he could not reconcile -something that made him realise he was not all-powerful. On the day of his death, he went to hisoffice at the Interior Ministry and then he left and went home for half an hour. Then he cameback with a pistol. He left a message for his wife in which he said goodbye to her and asked herto look after their children and he said that what he was going to do was 'for the good of Syria'.Then he shot himself in the mouth."152
Of Hariri's assassination, Syrian officials like to recall his relationship with the former Iraqiinterim prime minister Iyad Alawi - a self-confessed former agent for the CIA and MI6 - and analleged $20bn arms deal between the Russians and Saudi Arabia in which they claim Hariri wasinvolved.Hariri's Lebanese supporters continue to dismiss the Syrian argument on the grounds that Syriahad identified Hariri as the joint author with his friend, French President Jacques Chirac, of theUN Security Council resolution which demanded the retreat of the Syrians from Lebaneseterritory.But if the Syrians are understandably obsessed with the American occupation of Iraq, their longhatred for Saddam - something which they shared with most Iraqis - is still intact. When I askedmy first "security" source what would happen to the former Iraqi dictator, he replied, banging hisfist into his hand: "He will be killed. He will be killed. He will be killed."© 2006 Independent News and Media Limited153
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