Here's what I said then.......
Friday, 2 June, 2006, 18:28 GMT
"If you draw a line on the map from the oil fields of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, in the east, to the Mediterranean Sea, you will see why Iran is soon to be strategically important. And if I were Syrian I'd be looking a bit nervous now."

Lo and behold, in London, later that week...........

"The Times June 05, 2006
Exiles plot to overthrow Syria's Baathist regime
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor

LEADING Syrian opposition figures, led by the country’s former Vice-President, gathered in London yesterday for a two-day conference to plot the overthrow of the Baathist regime of President Assad.
The unprecedented gathering, which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office insisted was not co-ordinated with any British officials, was led by Abdel Halim Khaddam, who predicted that Syria’s increasingly dictatorial leadership would one day soon be toppled by a popular revolt."

Spooky ain't it..............