Report: U.S. team arrives in Syria to calms tensions in the North

An American delegation has secretly arrived
from Iraq to the Kurd region in northern Syria,
in an effort to calm tensions, following several
days of riots which came on the heels of a
violent soccer game between a Kurdish-backed
and a mostly Arab-backed team, Kurdish
sources and Syrian exiles in Europe told
Haaretz on Monday.

The information was also published on
Kurdish websites in Europe.

The U.S. team, which includes intelligence
officers, contacted senior officers in a Syrian
delegation sent to the region by President
Bashar Assad to negotiate with local leaders.

According to the sources, two U.S. helicopters
arrived Sunday from Iraq to the city of
Qamishli on the Turkish border, where the
riots began.

Haaretz

I was wondering how the PNACers were going to finesse it.....

FHMDRP's

gotta luv it...

permission from Damascus to be there and help negotiate.
I suspect that is because we are more trusted with the Kurds
than Assad would be.