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Middle East
Araqji dismisses Powell’s claim of Syrian occupation
2003-03-18
Beirut MP Adnan Araqji Monday dismissed US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s recent statement accusing Syria’s troops in Lebanon of occupying the country. “Everyday, the United State’s unbridled pride and presumptuousness increases with a view to impose American hegemony on this region and laying its hands on its natural wealth,” the MP said in a statement.
That doesn't address the presence of Syrian troops in Lebanon, or Syrian hegemony over Lebanon...
Araqji, a member of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s parliamentary bloc added that Powell’s statement reinforced His Majesty Syrian President Bashar Assad’s opinion that Iraq would be only the beginning and that the Americans would continue from there on to “impose their control on Arab countries one after the other.” Araqji pointed out that Powell’s claim that Syria was occupying Lebanon was a stark “interference in this country’s domestic affairs and an aggressive act against other people’s freedom of choice.”
"Yeah. We chose to be occupied and treated like one of Syria's po'-relations..."
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  What, Powell's focusing on the future?
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-03-19 02:21:49  

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