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| Syrian FM says US threats "baseless" |
| 2003-04-13 |
| The Syrian foreign minister on Saturday night branded as "baseless and futile" the US threats against his country. Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Farouq Al-Shara who was speaking at a joint press conference with his French counterpart Dominique de Villepin, added, "the Damascus government does not evaluate such phony threats as real, or serious." Neither did Sammy. And he had Dominique on his side, too... He meanwhile emphasized, "all the same, if we make sure that such threats are really the US foreign policy, we will respond to them seriously." Like by sending Syrians to make war on our troops? De Villepin and Al-Shara attended the press conference at Muridan Hotel of Damascus, following a joint meeting with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to the IRNA reporter in Syria. The Syrian foreign minister emphasized, "the threats against Syria are made by the extremists within the US administration who do not even heed the interests of the US nation, and the future of the Americans in the Middle East." He's talking about people who don't like Syrian gunnies... Some US politicians and military commanders have during the past few weeks been accusing Syria of sending weapons to Iraq secretly and of providing for the fleeing of the high ranking Iraqi officials into the Syrian territory. The Syrian foreign minister reiterated: "The Americans have up to now despite occupying the whole Iraqi territory found no weapons of mass destruction there. How are they going to prove the existence of such weapons in Syria then?" I suppose we could go look... Al Shara said, "Syria has a special status within the Islamic and Arab world, as well as among the members of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM). That is besides the hundreds of millions of black and Arab Americans, who have on numerous occasions announced they are pleased with the performance of the Syrian government." Hmmm... Wonder why he brought them up? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 "hundreds of millions of black and Arab Americans"? Sure....just like there are no infidel Americans at Baghdad International Airport. I guess Info Man made it to Damascus. What the hell, one Baath party is pretty much like another. |
| Posted by: Baba Yaga 2003-04-13 19:36:59 |
| #2 Fredo, I'm telling you, there's something funky going on with the WMD thing. More has been less, knowhaddimean? What is angle there? Do you 'spose we're trying to cover for the AoW? I mean they are so completely rippable, -What could GWB want from them? |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-04-13 18:40:23 |
| #1 Al Shara said, "Syria has a special status within the Islamic and Arab world, as well as among the members of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM). That is besides the hundreds of millions of black and Arab Americans, who have on numerous occasions announced they are pleased with the performance of the Syrian government." "Hundreds of millions" of black and Arab Americans. Hmmm. Population of 280million, 19% black (53 million, about 6% [3.2mil] black Muslims), Arab American population about 3% (8.4 million, about 25% Christian, so about 6.3 million Muslim). Even considering 2% non-black, non-Arab Muslims, still just a tad over 12 million. Long way from "Hundreds of millions". Even looking at the entire world, with over 1 billion Muslims, 2/3 are poor, uneducated, and have problems enough at home. The rest are either active in trying to run governments, stay alive, feed themselves, and continue to keep the Muslim communities they control above water. Syria is trying to appear greater than it is, like a cat whose fur stands on end when it's frightened. The United States has no problem seeing through all this hype. Ever seen a WET cat? |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-13 16:52:42 |