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Syria-Lebanon
ME target of colonialist and Zionist plot: Syria
2003-11-18
Syrian Defense Minister General Mustapha Tlass warned on Monday of a “colonialist and Zionist plot” being hatched against the Middle East, the official news agency Sana said.
"Yes, by Gawd! It's Deep Laid Plots™!"
“There is a bid to implement a colonialist and Zionist plot with a view to securing the riches of the region and undermining its culture and heritage,” Tlass said.
"Yes! They're gonna despoil us Syrians of our... ummm... what do we make, again?"
He singled out a draft law passed by the US Congress on Tuesday providing for economic and diplomatic sanctions against Syria, accused by Washington of supporting terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction. The law is “a weapon in the hands of the White House hawks” which seeks to “terrorize Syria and force it ultimately to renounce its right to recuperate its land occupied” by Israel in 1967, Tlass said. The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act provides for a range of retaliatory options for punishing Syria, from restricting US exports and business investment to downgrading Washington’s diplomatic representation and imposing travel restrictions on Syrian diplomats in the United States. The bill also bans the export of “dual-use” technology, allows the US government to freeze Syria’s assets in the United States and restrict overflight rights for Syrian aircraft inside US airspace.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#10  kinda funny how the tune changes when we finally begin to protect ourselves. now the us is the big bad bully! blah..blah.. should of thought of that before you decide to support terrorists!
Posted by: Dan   2003-11-18 6:08:22 PM  

#9  OP---It sounds like you have the plan for the Grand Tour™. My head must be in aviation this day. I read your "turbantops" as "turboprops" and it initially did not make any sense. LOL!
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-11-18 3:14:05 PM  

#8  Fred--

When are you going to write a book, damn you?
Posted by: Brian (MN)   2003-11-18 12:25:40 PM  

#7  I propose a new roadmap, one that leads through Damascus, Riyadh, Teheran, and Islamabad, and ends up with a bunch of turbantops hanging from telephone poles along the way. Anybody that gets in the way gets ran over by a steamroller. All such incidents will be marked with an "X".
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-11-18 12:09:37 PM  

#6  Chuck,
the Bekaa grows lovely Poppies and the Syrians have been raking in the filthy lucre for years. Whereas the States has its Columbia the Eurotypes have Syria.
Posted by: Barry   2003-11-18 11:26:27 AM  

#5  Maybe it was something about all the counterfitting of US money that takes place there.

Maybe it was being stupid enough to suck up to Saddam when it was obvious we were going to take him down.

Maybe we just don't care about the rights and wrongs of the Palestinians so long as they use stupid and immoral ways of waging war, and that Comrade Bashir is aiding and abetting them.

Maybe the goof-ball conspiracy theorists are right about Saddam's WMD program having decamped for Damascus.

It's not like we lack reasons.
Posted by: Hiryu   2003-11-18 11:16:23 AM  

#4  Tlass has been Min of Defense for 31 years, and is probably the most connected man in the Baath Party. He's not the power behind the throne, he's one of its pillars. I actually have a soft spot for him; he's the guy who said on Syrian national TV than Yasser was descended from 60 thousand whores.
Posted by: Fred   2003-11-18 10:09:53 AM  

#3  interesting that Syrian Defense Minister General Mustapha Tlass still has a job after the IAF buzzed Assad's palace. Guess that shows who's running the place, and it ain't the boy optometrist dictator
Posted by: Frank G   2003-11-18 9:46:16 AM  

#2  NO BLOOD FOR DATES!!

Considering the middle east and islam is a culture of death and splodeydopes, perhaps 'underiming its culture and heritage' is a good thing.
Posted by: Swiggles   2003-11-18 8:59:00 AM  

#1  The Bekka Valley grows delicious dates. Yeah, that's it. A War for Dates!
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2003-11-18 8:38:16 AM  

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