[Reader-list] syria: prophecies and policies

[zehra rizvi]

in the moore article that is covering every list at the moment, he said now 
is NOT the time to be silent.

people are asking me why im still protesting the war that has happenend and 
is almost over.  this is the reason why. otherwise, it will just continue 
happening.

z.rizvi.


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>2 articles:
>
>1. Bush tells Syria to give up Iraqis
>2. Syria could be next, warns Washington
>
>
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>Mr Rumsfeld said "They're associating with the wrong people and the effect
>of that hurts the
>Syrian people."
>
>'There will have to be change in Syria, plainly,' said Wolfowitz.
>
>Speaking to reporters outside the White House, the president also repeated
>his belief that Syria possessed chemical weapons. "I think that we believe
>there are chemical weapons in Syria, for example," he said.
>---
>
>what is there left to say...
>
>
>
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>Bush tells Syria to give up Iraqis
>
>Julian Borger in Washington and Nicholas Watt
>Monday April 14, 2003
>The Guardian
>
>George Bush called on Syria yesterday to hand over the Iraqi leaders his
>government believes it is sheltering.
>
>Speaking to reporters outside the White House, the president also repeated
>his belief that Syria possessed chemical weapons. "I think that we believe
>there are chemical weapons in Syria, for example," he said.
>
>He did not explicitly threaten military action against the Damascus
>government, saying that "each situation will require a different response",
>but nor did he rule it out.
>
>"First things first. We're in Iraq now," he said.
>
>"Syria just needs to cooperate with the United States and our coalition
>partners, not harbour any Ba'athists, any military officials, any people
>who need to be held to account."
>
>The Syrian deputy ambassador in Washington, Imad Moustapha, denied that his
>country was harbouring escaped Iraqis. He said it was the responsibility of
>US troops to monitor Iraq's border with Syria.
>
>The Pentagon's allegation that Saddam Hussein's lieutenants had been
>offered a haven by Damascus met with scepticism from some US intelligence
>officials last week. One said there was no "validated intelligence" for
>such a claim.
>
>But the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said there was "no question"
>that Syria was harbouring senior Iraqi officials.
>
>Asked how Washington would respond if Saddam were found being sheltered
>there, he said: "The last thing I would do would be to discuss that." But
>he said Damascus was "making a lot of bad mistakes, a lot of bad judgments
>in my view".
>
>Diplomats in Washington said they were certain the White House was not
>planning military action against Syria or Iran, which it has accused of
>lending support to Saddam.
>
>"You have to understand how much exhaustion there is over Iraq, and now
>they have the job of running Iraq. There is no stomach for any more," one
>said.
>
>And on BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend George Bush Sr's secretary of
>state, Lawrence Eagleburger, said if the president were to order an attack
>on Syria or Iran, "even I would feel he ought to be impeached".
>
>Washington has told London that for the time being it is its job to secure
>Syrian and Iranian cooperation, and the Foreign Office minister Mike
>O'Brien has been sent to Damascus and Tehran.
>
>Mr Rumsfeld said "busloads" of fighters had been crossing from Syria into
>Iraq to attack US troops.
>
>"Some were stopped, the ones we could find we sent them back. Some we [put
>in] prisoner of war camps. And others are getting killed." One bus was
>carrying $650,000 and leaflets offering rewards for killing Americans, the
>Pentagon said.
>
>Mr Rumsfeld said Syria was already suffering the economic consequences of
>supporting Iraq. "I mean, who in the world would want to invest in Syria?
>Who would want to go in tourism in Syria?
>
>"They're associating with the wrong people and the effect of that hurts the
>Syrian people."
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>
>Syria could be next, warns Washington
>
>Ed Vulliamy in Washington
>Sunday April 13, 2003
>The Observer
>
>The United States has pledged to tackle the Syrian-backed Hizbollah group
>in the next phase of its 'war on terror' in a move which could threaten
>military action against President Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus.
>
>The move is part of Washington's efforts to persuade Israel to support a
>new peace settlement with the Palestinians. Washington has promised Israel
>that it will take 'all effective action' to cut off Syria's support for
>Hizbollah - implying a military strike if necessary, sources in the Bush
>administration have told The Observer .
>
>Hizbollah is a Shia Muslim organisation based in Lebanon, whose fighters
>have attacked northern Israeli settlements and harassed occupying Israeli
>troops to the point of forcing an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon
>three years ago.
>
>The new US undertaking to Israel to deal with Hizbollah via its Syrian
>sponsors has been made over recent days during meetings between
>administration officials and Israeli diplomats in Washington, and Americans
>talking to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem. It would be
>part of a deal designed to entice Israel into the so-called road map to
>peace package that would involve the Jewish state pulling out of the
>Palestinian West Bank, occupied since 1967.
>
>Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has so far rejected the road map initiative -
>charted by the US with its ally, Britain - which also calls for mutual
>recognition between Israel and a new Palestinian state, structured
>according to US-backed reforms. The American guarantee would be to take
>armed action if necessary to cut off Syrian support for Hizbollah, and stop
>further sponsorship for the group by Iran.
>
>'If you control Iraq, you can affect the Syrian and Iranian sponsorship of
>Hizbollah, both geographically and politically,' says Ivo Daalder of the
>Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington.
>
>'The United States will make it very clear, quietly and publicly, that
>Baathist Syria may come to an end if it does not stop its support of
>Hizbollah.'
>
>The undertaking dovetails conveniently into 'phase three' of what President
>George Bush calls the 'war on terror' and his pledge to go after all
>countries accused of harbouring terrorists.
>
>It also fits into calls by hawks inside and aligned to the administration
>who believe that war in Iraq was first stage in a wider war for American
>control of the region. Threats against Syria come daily out of Washington.
>
>Hawks in and close to the Bush White House have prepared the ground for an
>attack on Syria, raising the spectre of Hizbollah, of alleged Syrian plans
>to wel come refugees from Saddam Hussein's fallen regime, and of what the
>administration insists is Syrian support for Iraq during the war.
>
>Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz - regarded as the real architect of
>the Iraqi war and its aftermath - said on Thursday that 'the Syrians have
>been shipping killers into Iraq to try and kill Americans', adding: 'We
>need to think about what our policy is towards a country that harbours
>terrorists or harbours war criminals.
>
>'There will have to be change in Syria, plainly,' said Wolfowitz.
>
>Washingtom intelligence sources claim that weapons of mass destruction that
>Saddam was alleged to have possessed were shipped to Syria after inspectors
>were sent by the United Nations to find them.
>
>One of the chief ideologists behind the war, Richard Perle, yesterday
>warned that the US would be compelled to act against Syria if it emerged
>that weapons of mass destruction had been moved there by Saddam's fallen
>Iraqi regime.


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