³A U.N. investigation said the assassination could not have
been carried out without the knowledge of Syrian security
officials.²
What they actually found is that the assassination had the earmarks of an
intelligence agency.
Since they were unwilling to consider the CIA or Mossad as perps, they simply
named Syria as the 'only possibility'. When propaganda is so shallow one wonders
how it can be so successful.
rkm
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Original source URL:
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060928/3/2qkjq.html
Thursday September 28, 8:45 PM
Syria shrugs off U.S. sanctions threat
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria will keep supporting Hamas and Hizbollah despite U.S.
threats to impose more sanctions on the country, a government newspaper said on
Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week threatened to toughen
sanctions Washington imposed on Syria in 2004, mainly for its support of the two
Arab Muslim movements, which Washington regards as "terrorist organisations",
and ask other countries to join in.
"Syria is more determined to stand by the resistance until the land is liberated
and Israel is defeated," an editorial in the Baath newspaper said.
"If the U.S. administration is serious about combating terrorism then it should
play a constructive role in pushing forward the peace process on the basis of
U.N. resolutions 242 and 338," the newspaper said.
The UN resolutions, passed decades ago, emphasise the inadmissibility of the
acquisition of territory by war, call on Israel to withdraw from Arab land it
has occupied since 1967 and negotiations to reach a "just and durable peace" in
the Middle East.
"Absolute U.S. support for Israel is one of the main causes behind regional
instability. The United States has helped Israel in the United Nations stand
against any proposal for a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli
conflict," the newspaper said.
Rice said the United States was going "to have to look at tougher measures if
Syria continues to be on the path that it's on."
Relations between the United States, Israel's chief ally, and Syria have been
deteriorating for years, especially after last year's assassination in Beirut of
former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, who was friendly with
Washington.
A U.N. investigation said the assassination could not have been carried out
without the knowledge of Syrian security officials. Damascus denies involvement.
Diplomats in Damascus say Washington has been angered by the Syrian response to
an attack carried out by Muslim militants on the U.S embassy in Damascus on
September 12.
Syrian security forces foiled the attack, but Syrian officials later said U.S.
policies in the region and support for Israel invited it.
In May 2004, Washington banned a number of U.S. exports to Syria, severed
banking relations with the country's largest bank and barred Syrian flights to
and from the United States.
Copyright © 2005 Reuters Limited.
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