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donnay
01-20-2017, 10:03 AM
Secret 1983 CIA intelligence report suggested America should encourage Saddam Hussein to attack Syria to secure oil pipeline to Med and Gulf

By Thomas Burrows for MailOnline

Published: 07:35 EST, 20 January 2017

America urged Saddam Hussein to attack Hafez al-Assad's Syria because of the closure of Iraq's oil pipeline, a secret 1983 intelligence report has revealed.

A report, by former senior CIA official Graham Fuller, said the US should consider 'urging Iraq to take the war to Syria', noting that Saddam was 'fighting for his life' in the Iran-Iraq campaign.

Through the closure of the pipeline, Mr Fuller said Syria had a 'hammerlock' on US interests in both Lebanon and in the Gulf.

With that being the case, he said the US should consider 'sharply escalating the pressures against Assad' from three border states hostile to Syria - Iraq, Israel and Turkey.

Faced with 'three belligerent fronts', Assad would probably be forced to abandon his closure of the pipeline, the report claimed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4140190/America-urged-Saddam-attack-Assad-Syria.html

presence
01-20-2017, 10:06 AM
Through the closure of the pipeline, Mr Fuller said Syria had a 'hammerlock' on 'US interests' in both Lebanon and in the Gulf.

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