Allawi government accuses neighboring states of supporting the terrorists: we will not oppose having them attacked by the Americans
Iraq-Regional, Politics, 7/5/2004

The Interim Iraqi government said it will publish during this week evidences to that countries neighboring Iraq gave support to the resistance against the American occupation, noting in particular to Syria and Iran and announced it will not oppose that the American occupation forces will launch operations against these countries from the Iraqi lands.

The Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zeibari told the British Sunday telegraph daily: since we have started the security situation we learnt how foreign governments support the terrorist.. we do not know the reason but we do know from where the support comes.. we plan to announce that openly within days and this will have the great impact.

Zeibari did not specify the countries which he accused, but the paper quoted " high ranking Iraqi officials that these countries are Syria and Iran.

Zeibari added that " foreign support to terrorists is continuous, which is a grave matter..But this will be turned out against these countries. He explained that "terrorist" members made use of the financial and logistic support in addition to training in these neighboring states.

The Sunday Telegraph said that " Baghdad considered that some 10,000 foreign spies sneaked to the country since the eruption of the war." It added that Zeibari also said that Iraq might not oppose attacks by American forces positioned in Iraq against neighboring states if these states support resistance men.

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