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| Syria preparing sanctions against United States |
| 2004-06-19 |
| Expect a major recession in the US soon. Syria is preparing a law that would prohibit trade dealings with the United States in response to U.S. sanctions imposed on the Arab country last month, Syrian legislators said Saturday. More than 130 members of the 250-seat legislature have prepared a draft of the "America Accountability Act" that would impose "strict sanctions" on American interests in Syria. In a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Damascus, parliament officials said the draft law is a response to "Washington’s policy in the region and its unlimited support and bias for Israeli policies and practices and to the Syria Accountability Act."...Muhammad Habash, a lawmaker with moderate Islamic affiliations who is one of the campaigners for the draft law, said the law was meant to maintain the dignity of Syrians. "We are not simple-minded to the degree that we imagine we can affect the great American economy," he said. "But we are able to maintain our dignity and slap the Americans so they know that if they continue with their arrogant policies, people everywhere around the globe will spit at them." Spitting will earn you a 3 game suspension at the EURO 2004 championship. Ask Totti. ...Lawmaker Suleiman Haddad said the sanctions may be in the form of boycotting American goods but would not be a complete boycott of the United States, though he said some members of parliament supported that option. "We in Syria believe that there is still a thread between us and America," Haddad said in a telephone interview Saturday. He said the sanctions would not impose restrictions on U.S. companies working in his country. Trade between the United States and Syria amounts to $300 million a year. Several U.S. companies operate in Syria, which in the last year has signed oil-exploration deals with American companies worth a total of $34 million.... |
| Posted by:Rafael |
| #8 Please spare us ...what will happen? A few dates & figs won't get shipped out? What a lot of crap. ASSad, the clock is really ticking now |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-06-19 11:48:18 PM |
| #7 Not just the World Press but also a lot of Expats who should know better by now. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-06-19 11:35:43 PM |
| #6 A4617 - Got the email - cool - I'll send you a quickie for your Address Book in a few mins. Of course the Werld Press ate it UP - the statement that they had the body - but the follow-up that there was no body came from Fox. Big surprise, huh? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-19 11:30:43 PM |
| #5 .com, They also said that the bodies were shown on Saudi TV yesterday. I had Saudi 1 and Saudi2 stations on all day yesterday. What they showed was composite drawings of the faces of the supposedly slain terrorists. Their lies are so infantile! |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-06-19 11:27:01 PM |
| #4 .com, Has Fred sent you my e-mail? |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-06-19 11:20:59 PM |
| #3 Arabs, wow. Somebody should send Baby Assad a copy of The Mouse That Roared so mebbe he can make a buck or two... Between this and the nincompoop stunt the Saudis pulled with their magically convenient and timely locating and killing of the Johnson murderers (yewbetcha!) when they were disposing of the body (sherthang!) -- only, now they don't have a body, so the notion of how they caught the killers and killed them kinda melted down into a puddle on the Editorial Conference Room floor... But hey, who can question their sincerity, huh? Their Johnnie-on-the-Spot gunbattle just as the world press was really heating up? Coincidence! These nasty preople who say Nayef was put on the front-burner to "Kill someone! Doesn't matter who, just do it quick!" and was thus forced to sacrifice a few fodder-pawns, well, I think that's just being mean-spitited. Mebbe Conifer will sympathize with him. Poor Arabs. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-19 11:07:49 PM |
| #2 hmmmm need to tighten quality control on the oil pipeline thru Syria...I'd suggest a couple days or more inspection time... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-19 10:54:47 PM |
#1 "America Accountability Act" that would impose "strict sanctions" on American interests in Syria.Hahahahaha! Thanks - I needed a good laugh. Sanction away, idiots. Guess which side it will hurt the most. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-19 10:51:48 PM |