{"id":122,"date":"2004-07-21T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=122"},"modified":"2004-08-27T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T16:58:17","slug":"iraqs-neighbors-agree-to-improve-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s Neighbors Agree to Improve Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, probably more likely, <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;ncid=736&#038;e=3&#038;u=\/ap\/20040721\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq_s_neighbors\" target=\"_blank\">at least pay lip service to security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq (news &#8211; web sites)&#8217;s neighbors agreed Wednesday to hold a high-level security meeting and share intelligence about cross-border infiltration, answering the war-ravaged nation&#8217;s plea for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Facing almost daily car bombings and firefights, Iraq accuses foreign Muslim infiltrators of being behind some of the deadliest attacks and says neighboring countries are either facilitating or turning a blind eye to infiltration across borders.<\/p>\n<p>After a day of long-winded deliberations and minor disagreements, Arab foreign ministers welcomed the proposal of Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari to convene interior ministers and security officials to discuss how to &#8220;eliminate all terrorist and other armed groups present and emanating from Iraqi territory which constitute a danger to Iraq and neighboring states,&#8221; the final statement of the meeting said.<\/p>\n<p>The date of the meeting, to be hosted by Iran, has not yet been decided. But delegates at the sixth regional meeting of Iraq&#8217;s neighbors said the meeting will mean intelligence sharing, and possibly reinforcement of border patrols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note the hint that Egypt is possibly realizing their own danger that is being fostered by the terror:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Just as neighboring countries affect the situation in Iraq, they are affected by it,&#8221; Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, probably more likely, at least pay lip service to security. Iraq (news &#8211; web sites)&#8217;s neighbors agreed Wednesday to hold a high-level security meeting and share intelligence about cross-border infiltration, answering the war-ravaged nation&#8217;s plea for assistance. Facing almost daily car bombings and firefights, Iraq accuses foreign Muslim infiltrators of being behind some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}