I know it's the Philipines but the picture was funny.
Posted on 01/06/2004 3:38:59 PM PST by blam
Assad concedes that 'partly occupied' Syria has WMD
By Justin Huggler
07 January 2004
Every move by the Syrian President, Bashar Assad, was under close scrutiny as he arrived in Turkey for talks yesterday, after he appeared to concede that Syria possesses weapons of mass destruction.
Syria will renounce its WMD programme if Israel, which has a sizeable nuclear arsenal, does the same, Dr Assad said. "We are a country which is [partly] occupied," he told The Daily Telegraph, referring to the Golan Heights, which Israel has occupied since 1967. "From time to time we are exposed to Israeli aggression. It is natural for us to look for means to defend ourselves." Syria is not believed to have nuclear capability, but Western intelligence agencies say Damascus has chemical weapons.
Last year, Damascus presented a motion at the UN Security Council calling for all WMD to be removed from the Middle East, including Israel's weapons, only to have it rejected by the US and Britain.
His visit to neighbouring Turkey is the first ever by a Syrian head of state, and a sign of the warmest relations between the two countries in years.
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Including Saddam's.
I know it's the Philipines but the picture was funny.
Terrorism at its worst. This is what the Islamofascists are really after. They want Israel to disgard nukes for only one reason-invasion of Israel.
Yep!
As an aside, I can't believe that one of the many antagonistic nations in the middle east thinks that they can have a "one-for-one" WMD pact with Israel. What about the rest of the anti-Semites? Are they going to remain heavily armed in WMD and fully antagonistic towards Israel? I suspect so.
That is an option. I suspect that Syria is a little scared, given Libya's recent actions as well as those of N. Korea. The circle of violence is breaking apart, slowly but surely. Syria knows it and they are starting to confess. I really think that we'll see more of this throughout the middle east as long as Bush's resolve remains strong.
Actually, this would be a good thing. 8^) Destroy WMDs "one-for-one", ie. warhead for warhead, with Israel and real quickly IDF becomes the only nuclear power in the region.
My recollection is that Israel seized the golan hts. after the 6 day war, where Israel attacked Egypt, seized the sinai and also the golan hts. I think you are thinking of the yom kippor war where egypt attacked across the suez canal to try to retrieve the sinai and syria attacked also. This is the war they started and lost. But I think the 6 day war was a blitz by Israel.
Conflict ignites after three weeks of increasing tensions, including a massive Arab troop buildup in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as an Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea of ships to or from Israel. On June 5, 1967, Israel responds by launching a surprise attack on Egypt. Other Arab nations, including Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and Jordan, join Egypt in the fighting. Israel seizes the Golan Heights from Syria, Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan before a cease-fire is agreed upon.
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