The Interior Minister of Iraq, Bayan Jabr, outlined Syria’s role in the insurgency during an interview in Turkey, calling on Syria to get serious with terrorists and their border. He also had some word for Jordan, but not so pointed.

He said that insurgent leaders were in Syria “and I have addressees and pictures with me of these terrorists.”

But when asked whether he expected Syria to cooperate, Jabr shook his head.

“We have to protect our borders,” he added.

Jabr also said that while Jordan was committed to stopping the flow of money from its territory to insurgents, many Jordanians and Iraqi expatriates in Jordan were supporting the militants.

He pointed to Saddam Hussein’s wife, Sajida, and his daughter, Raghad, who he said live in Jordan and sent $100 million to support the militants.

“Jordan doesn’t support the insurgency, but the people in Jordan do,” Jabr said, adding that “there are many Iraqis who support the insurgency who are living in Amman.”

Syria needs to figure out which path it is going to take. The international community, if it had some backbone, would be there en masse warning them of pending actions if this duplicitous activity continued. Unfortunately this is how we ended up invading Iraq, because the international community is weak and ineffectual.

The only other option is regional pressure.

After that it will be left to the US-Iraq coalition to deal with. Let’s hope it doesn’t get that far.