A top Army general said yesterday that the Iraqi insurgency was being run in part by former senior Iraqi Baath Party officials operating in Syria who call themselves the “New Regional Command.” These men, from the former governing party of deposed president Saddam Hussein, are “operating out of Syria with impunity and providing direction and financing for the insurgency,” said Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the U.S. commander in Iraq. “That needs to stop,” Casey said at a Pentagon briefing. He called on the government of President Bashar Assad to do more to stop the insurgency from being managed by Iraqis hiding in Syria. “The Syrians are making some efforts on the border,” he said. “But they are not going after the big fish, which is really the people that we’re interested in. And we’re really interested in them going after the senior Baathists.” Full Story
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