Stop accusing Syria, envoy tells US

Syria’s ambassador to the US said today that Iraq may be spiralling toward a civil war “that will have a domino effect on the whole region” – and he urged the Bush administration to stop accusing his country of harbouring infiltrators.

In an Associated Press interview, Ambassador Imad Moustapha said in Washington: “We are really not allowing people to infiltrate” into Iraq. He invited the US to help secure the border.