Apparently Syria is now really concerned with Americas time table in Iraq. Read about it here. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

The third paragraph mentions that Iraq and the US think Syria isn't doing enough to stop the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq. If we were handing out awards for journalistic use of dramatic understatement this would have to be in the top 3.
Allow me to give a brief background on insurgent activities in Iraq. There are two kinds, the death squads that round up and kill people for their faith and ethnic persuasion. This is the sunni/shiite conflict that is often said to be on the brink of civil war. The other form of insurgency is Arabs coming into Iraq to fight Americans. It is this second kind that Syria is passively supporting by letting anyone waltz across their border and into Iraq, and it is these people who are directly targeting American troops.
Last week I read an interview with an Marine who did a tour in Iraq and he said the whole time he was fighting there he only saw one or two Iraqi insurgents the rest were foreign arabs. There is a river of foreign terrorist coming into Iraq, they come in small streams from around the arab world but all meet in Syria.

Syria is not doing enough and now they want us to leave. Why? To create a power vacuum and let run things like they do in Lebanon?