Assad: The Americans told Syria not to host Iraqi scientists, now we know why

In pres­i­dent al-Asad speech yes­ter­day at the Pan-Arab Thought Revival and Arab Des­tiny in Dam­as­cus, he revealed untold secret about the inva­sion of Iraq.

A few weeks after the fall of Bagh­dad, how­ever the Amer­i­can sec­re­tary of state Colin Pow­ell came to Dam­as­cus, and talked with pride on the work accom­plished by his army in Iraq, and he men­tioned that Syria must not hosts the Iraqi sci­en­tists, and pre­vent the Iraq thinkers from enter­ing its ter­ri­tory, later we knew that they are tar­geted and assas­si­nated to be seen later that Amer­i­can forces tar­geted them and killed them, it was clear that the Amer­i­cans want Iraq a dev­as­tated coun­try in terms of her­itage and its abil­ity to pro­duce intellectuals.