"90% av självmordsbombare i Irak utlänningar som kommer in via Syrien"
Satterfield, som är rådgivare til Condoleeza Rice om Irak menar:
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He estimated 90 percent of suicide bombers in Iraq were foreigners and while the mix of nationalities changed, some 85 to 90 percent of them crossed over from Syria. "They (suicide bombers) see Syria as a more accommodating country through which to transit across the border to come into Iraq to perpetrate their terror," Satterfield said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, . "It has to stop, it is not in Syria's long term interests to let this violence continue," he added.
Läs mer: Reuters AlertNet - US tells Syria to stop bombers crossing into Iraq