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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20650-2003Sep30.html
Syria Feeling U.S. Pressure Over Iraq
(AP/Washington Post) - The American civil administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, told reporters last week that most foreign fighters are entering Iraq via "ratlines" from Syria. He added that of 248 non-Iraqi fighters being held in Iraq, 123 are Syrian. The Bush administration is now trying to determine if Syria is engaged in espionage against America following the arrests of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, a Syrian-born supply clerk, and Army Capt. Yousef Yee, a Muslim chaplain who learned Arabic and studied Islam in Syria a decade ago.