{"id":11233,"date":"2012-07-27T05:56:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T12:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11233"},"modified":"2012-07-27T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T13:05:48","slug":"iraq-moves-to-block-us-saudi-back-mercenaries-from-entering-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11233","title":{"rendered":"Iraq moves to block -US-Saudi backed mercenaries from entering Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iraq says blocking al-Qaeda moves to Syria<\/strong><br \/>\n27 July, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Interior Ministry denied reports on Friday that al-Qaeda militants were infiltrating Syria from the Iraqi border, days after Islamist militants stormed several border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Media Network reported the ministry&#8217;s undersecretary Ahmad al-Khafaji as saying \u201cborder guards in coordination with the Iraqi army closed all the ports that the organization al-Qaeda could have used to pass into Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The international community has warned of an influx of al-Qaeda militants from Iraq into Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Baghdad also reiterated its decision to welcome Syrian refugees fleeing the violence in many Syrian cities, and has allocated 50 billion dinars ($40 million) for the erection of tents on the border with Iraq to house them.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, German intelligence agency BND claimed that al-Qaeda was responsible for at least 90 terror attacks in Syria. The revelations confirm widespread Western fears of al-Qaeda&#8217;s growing involvement in the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad has frequently contended that his forces are fighting primarily an Islamist insurgency, although it is unclear how prominent Islamist insurgents are in the rebellion. <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/iraq-says-blocking-al-qaeda-moves-syria\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D11233&amp;text=Iraq+moves+to+block+-US-Saudi+backed+mercenaries+from+entering+Syria&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq says blocking al-Qaeda moves to Syria 27 July, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar The Iraqi Interior Ministry denied reports on Friday that al-Qaeda militants were infiltrating Syria from the Iraqi border, days after Islamist militants stormed several border crossings. The Iraqi Media Network reported the ministry&#8217;s undersecretary Ahmad al-Khafaji as saying \u201cborder guards in coordination <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11233#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3047],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11235,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233\/revisions\/11235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}