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US: Al-Zarqawi men met in Syria;

Iraq's presidential adviser for security affairs, General Wafiq al-Samarai, said he had "no information" about an al-Zarqawi meeting in Syria.

Syrian political analyst Imad Fawzi al-Shueibi dismissed the report as "part of an organised campaign against Syria".

"Syria has no interest in (helping) al-Zarqawi," al-Shueibi said. "If al-Zarqawi and his group win in Iraq, they will turn the region into a fundamentalist nightmare."

Syria needs to follow the U.S.'s example in sealing its border with Mexico and plug up the leaks in and out of Iraq.