So they were there after all...

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Out-freaking-standing OTC member
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria presumably has handed over all the Iraqi leaders known to have fled to Damascus and other areas of the country during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Secretary of State Colin Powell (search) said Sunday.

In an interview with CBS on Sunday, Powell said "some have been made available to us, let me put it that way, who we knew were there, are no longer there.

"They've been made available to us, and they will be before the bar of justice of the Iraqi people. There are other names that we have passed back and forth to see whether they can be located."

Powell said that during his three-hour meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad (search) in Damascus (search) on Saturday, the foreign leader seems to have "no interest in serving as a haven for any of these individuals."

"So I think if we can give him information and give him specific names and anything else we can say about these people, I think he would try to respond."

The Bush administration has charged that Syria has been providing safe haven to Iraqi regime leaders looking to escape the coalition's hunt for Saddam Hussein's inner circle. Syria has vehemently denied the charges.

Powell said there may be other Iraqi figures in Syria that the United States does not know about. He told Assad that Washington expects those people too to be handed over.

Guess the Syrians are actually trying to do something right...for a change...

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Syria is deciding a regime change is a bad idea for the sitting government ;)
 
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