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Syria intervenes to cancel Iraq rebels meetings :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

Syria intervenes to cancel Iraq rebels meetings :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it: "DAMASCUS, July 23 (Reuters) - A large meeting of Iraqi rebel groups that was due to be held in Damascus on Monday was cancelled at the behest of Syria, delegates said.

Hundreds of delegates, including members of the banned Iraqi Baath Party, officers in Saddam Hussein's now defunct security forces and anti-U.S. tribal leaders, had gathered in Damascus to work out a joint programme for groups opposed to the continued presence of U.S. forces in Iraq.

'The Syrians gently made it clear that this is not the time for this,' a senior Baath Party member told Reuters."

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