Posted on 12/31/2005 9:44:17 AM PST by HAL9000
Syrian lawmakers on Saturday accused former Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam of treason and demanded action against him after he implicated President Bashar al-Assad's regime in the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri."I demand, in my own name and the name of the people that Khaddam is judged because he has attacked the dignity of Syria and humiliated milliions of Syrians," said MP Umeima Khudur.
In an explosive interview with Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television, Khaddam said Assad had threatened Hariri just months before his February murder.
Honor killing on line 2 please.
These pinheads are going to be out of a job shortly.
Assad is on the way out. There's no way a prominent politician in that regime would speak out that way if he wasn't sure his head would be in place in the long term.
Maybe Khaddam was part of this? And wanted to clear his name with the west by outing Assad.
This is an interesting turn of events. The Syrian government may be in a lot deeper trouble than it appears. If the interal factions are tearing themselves apart, that government is not long for this world. Assad isn't nearly strong enough to hold the regime together by himself.
When a nation's "honor" is bound up with defending mass murder, that nation's government needs to fall -- from internal or external causes -- as soon as humanly possible. Witness Nazi Germany. Communist Soviet Union. Communist China. Etc., etc. etc.
Did I miss anything?
Congressman Billybob
Let the implosion begin!
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