Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered the sending of extra troops to secure the border with Syria and on Saturday slammed at countries he says are giving terrorists the shelter needed to mount attacks inside Iraq. "We will always look for a process of closing all the doors that the assassins can breathe from again. We blame our brothers and our friends and neighbouring countries," he said, according to AFP.
"They told us they are with us; they have stood with us in certain situations, but what can we say about their support for the killers again?
"The world is either collaborating or forgetting, even Iraqis are forgetting who have committed crimes. The world is embracing them, some of the Iraqis applaud them," Maliki said in a televised speech.
On Saturday, the police chief of Anbar province confirmed that police and troops had been sent to the Syrian border to boost security. "The prime minister ordered us to deploy new forces from the army and police on the border line between Iraq and Syria to prevent infiltrators from entering," Major General Tariq al-Assal told AFP.
