Syria reduces the forces on Iraq border, Saudi media gives a new reason for the U.S. raid

Al-Arabiya reported that Syria reduced its mil­i­tary forces and bor­der guards on the Syria — Iraq bor­der [cut­ting diplo­matic ties with Iraq also], but what I heard [from my own sources] is that Syria with­drew all its forces from the bor­der [which means giv­ing the green light to armed groups to cross to Iraq].

Syr­ian ambas­sador in Wash­ing­ton Imad Mustafa told the Syr­ian semi-official Al-Watan that the Amer­i­can admin­is­tra­tion is “shocked” by the Syr­ian reac­tion and the admin­is­tra­tion is still search­ing for more con­vinc­ing rea­son for the raid. They even don’t want to give answer to Arab ambas­sadors asked the U.S. for more details.

One Saudi news­site Elaph claims that Lebanese sources informed them that the U.S. raid was pre­ven­tive strike to stop Syria from invad­ing North Lebanon under the cover of chas­ing ter­ror­ists. The source said that Syr­ian wants to U.S. the power vac­uum in U.S. and Israel to imple­ment this plan [Lebanese Prime Min­is­ter San­iora said yes­ter­day that there is no con­nec­tion between the Raid on Syria and Lebanon. Still, it is a Saudi Media].