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| Syrian Leader Lashes Out; Declares Innocence |
| 2005-11-10 |
| DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's president Thursday reiterated his country's innocence in the killing of a prominent Lebanese politician. He pledged to cooperate - for now - with a U.N. investigation that implicated Syrian military officers but warned such cooperation will stop "when Syria is going to harmed." President Bashar Assad also disclosed that a U.N. investigator has turned down Syria's conditions set on the investigation cooperation. "We will play their game" and cooperate, Assad said in a speech at Damascus University. But, he warned, the country will "stop when Syria is going to be harmed." Syria has come under intense pressure from the United States and the United Nations since the February assassination of Rafik Hariri, a former prime minister of Lebanon. A U.N. Security Council resolution has demanded that Syria cooperate with an international probe into the assassination. The U.N. commission led by German investigator Detlev Mehlis wants to question six Syrian officials in Lebanon. Assad disclosed in his speech that Mehlis had refused Syria's offers to hold the questioning of the officers on Syrian territory - even in U.N. offices there - or at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, in cooperation with Egypt. Mehlis on Thursday left Beirut for Germany, Beirut airport officials said. Assad said the latest events confirm that "no matter what we did and how much we cooperate, the result will be that Syria did not cooperate." "Syria is innocent in the absolute sense," Assad said in the wide-ranging and hard-line speech. "Syria is not involved at the government level or at the individual level. The problem is merely a political one in the context of events." |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 "Syria is innocent in the absolute sense," Assad said in the wide-ranging and hard-line speech. "Syria is not involved at the government level or at the individual level. The problem is merely a political one in the context of events." "I don't have to be judged on the facts. I just have to be judged politically, and all is well... Ball is in YOUR court Kofi!" |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-11-10 12:04 |
| #4 "But, he warned, the country will "stop when Syria is going to be harmed." Is it just me or is this guy "Dirt-Walking"? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2005-11-10 11:53 |
| #3 Laughing out loud here! Who me? I dunno know who done it! |
| Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-11-10 11:32 |
| #2 Honesty meter goes tilt. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-11-10 09:44 |
| #1 I didn't do it!! Iran outta gas !!! I had a flat Tire!! I wasn't THERE!!!!!!!!! YA RIGHT!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-11-10 09:24 |