| One hereditary dictatorship defending another hereditary dictatorship. Quite a coincidence, huh? |
 Syria should not be isolated and no one should make accusations about former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri's killing until a UN report is published next month, Egypt has said. "The Egyptian proposal rejects isolating Syria and calls for achieving stability in the region and not opening a new focus of tension that adds to an already complicated situation," Egyptian presidential spokesman Suleiman Awad said on Sunday.
| "No matter how many important people they bumped off!" |
He was speaking to reporters after talks in Cairo between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. The United States has warned Syria that it faces isolation unless it cooperates with Iraq over border security. Syria says it has deployed thousands of troops on the Iraq border to prevent infiltrators entering Iraq. Washington has also accused Syria of drawing up an assassination hit list targeting Lebanese political leaders, a charge Syrian officials deny. Many Lebanese go further and blame Damascus for al-Hariri's assassination, which Demascus also denies.
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