WHILE IT'S FUN TO THINK WE SCARED THEM STRAIGHT...:

Syria stops insurgents on Iraq border (Phil Sands, November 02. 2008, The National)

Syria has been helping US and Iraqi troops catch extremists trying to cross the border, a US military intelligence official said in an interview with The National.

In addition to arresting insurgents on their side of the frontier, Syrian security services have passed information to US forces that is being used to target insurgents inside Iraq, according to Major Adam Boyd, the head intelligence officer with the third armoured cavalry regiment. His unit is responsible for Mosul, the Jazeera desert and policing a 380km stretch of the Iraqi-Syrian border in Nineveh province.

...it's more likely we're just making them seem like collaborators in order to rile up the Salafists.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 3, 2008 7:02 AM