 Syria's ruling Baath party says it has expelled former vice-president Abdel Halim Khaddam, who has implicated the regime in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq al-Hariri. "The national leadership has decided to throw Khaddam out of the party. It considers him a traitor. Khaddam has betrayed the party, the homeland and the (Arab) nation," the party leadership on Sunday said in a statement carried by the official SANA news agency. The party described Khaddam's comments to Al-Arabia, the Dubai-based satellite channel, from his base in exile in Paris as a "slander which violates the principles of the nation". |