SYRIA FINANCES INSURGENCY WAR AGAINST U.S.

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has quietly determined that Syriahelped finance the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Officials said the regime of President Bashar Assad has used thestate-owned Commercial Bank of Syria to relay hundreds of millions ofdollars to Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq. They said the money has beenemployed to finance the insurgency against the U.S.-led coalition primarilyin Iraq's Sunni Triangle.