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Syria Backs Nuclear Iran
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-20-2006 | Patrick Bishop

Posted on 01/19/2006 6:23:57 PM PST by blam

Syria backs a nuclear Iran

By Patrick Bishop in Damascus
(Filed: 20/01/2006)

Syria yesterday backed Iran in its nuclear confrontation with the West as their leaders met in Damascus in a defiant show of solidarity.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Assad

The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, welcomed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said the Iranian leader had the right to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. In turn, Mr Ahmadinejad asserted his host's right to freedom from foreign interference.

Both men face confontations with the United Nations Security Council. The West is pushing for the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Teheran to the council over its work on enriching uranium, which Europe and America fear is intended for use in nuclear weapons.

Mr Assad's regime is under intense scrutiny after a UN report implicated senior figures in the assassination last year of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

The meeting came as Mr Ahmadinejad's government warned the West that the world would face an oil crisis if Iran was referred to the council and sanctions followed. "One of the consequences will be the unleashing of a crisis in the oil sector and particularly a price hike," said Davoud Danesh-Jafari, the oil minister.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; baath; backs; iaea; iran; irannukes; islamofascism; nuclear; outpostsoftyranny; saddamwantabees; sandnazis; syria
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1 posted on 01/19/2006 6:23:59 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

I'm sure they do. Chances are their backing ain't gonna pay off.


2 posted on 01/19/2006 6:27:10 PM PST by pissant
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To: blam

We needed a MOAB over Syria's Presidential Palace today, I'm quite serious. We should have grabbed the opportunity to wipe out a good portion of both of these terrorist cabals and then finished the job with extensive strikes all over Iran, Syria, and the Bekka Valley.


3 posted on 01/19/2006 6:27:26 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: blam

And this surprises whom?


4 posted on 01/19/2006 6:27:44 PM PST by wizardoz
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To: blam

Noooo! You don't say?

I'm betting that one day after Iran has the bomb, Syria has the bomb, then Libya, Somalia, etc.


5 posted on 01/19/2006 6:28:46 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: blam

Well knock me over with a feather. Sure didn't see this coming.


6 posted on 01/19/2006 6:29:07 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: blam
Well, Surprise, Suprise, Suprise.

Sign Syria up officially for the axis of evil [and potential Crusade].

7 posted on 01/19/2006 6:29:29 PM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: wizardoz

Since WMD's were relocated from Iraq to Syria they have a lot of parts Iran needs. DUH


8 posted on 01/19/2006 6:31:21 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: blam
Syria yesterday backed Iran in its nuclear confrontation with the West as their leaders met in Damascus in a defiant show of solidarity abject stupidity.

Are there any doubts about where this is headed anymore, by anyone? When do we start the pool? I want May 1st and Iran for $1,000.
9 posted on 01/19/2006 6:32:21 PM PST by DoNotDivide (Ask the Lord to make Himself real to you and receive His love today, while you still can!)
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To: blam

Well that makes three supporting Iran's bomb: the leader of Iran, the leader of Syria and pat buchanan.


10 posted on 01/19/2006 6:32:49 PM PST by CWOJackson (tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in the Star Wars trilogy?)
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To: Enchante

Yes, because the Iraq War isn't quite enough for you.


11 posted on 01/19/2006 6:33:40 PM PST by Lejes Rimul (I was right about Iraq all along. Told you so.)
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To: blam

Of course they'll support Iran because Iran's future nukes will make Syria's regime unshakable too. Look at the respect nutty Kim Jong-Il gets and young Assad so desperately craves.


12 posted on 01/19/2006 6:35:10 PM PST by Lejes Rimul (I was right about Iraq all along. Told you so.)
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To: blam

I just saw another Freeper say on a different thread "Is there a "no sh*t Sherlock" ping list? It seems to fit here too.


13 posted on 01/19/2006 6:35:26 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: blam

target them when they get together like this...


14 posted on 01/19/2006 6:35:32 PM PST by injin
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To: Lejes Rimul

You are either with us or with the terrorists.

Thanks for making it clear whose side of this World War you choose.


15 posted on 01/19/2006 6:35:51 PM PST by DoNotDivide (Ask the Lord to make Himself real to you and receive His love today, while you still can!)
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To: CWOJackson

I wonder which Iranian mullah OBL is sleeping with.


16 posted on 01/19/2006 6:37:56 PM PST by DoNotDivide (Ask the Lord to make Himself real to you and receive His love today, while you still can!)
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To: DoNotDivide

I love America enough to warn that the Iraq War is a needless diversion while true threats to our great republic prepare themselves for the coming anarchy. If you want America to send even more troops to occupy a hostile Middle East, then you clearly don't love America as much as you like to think you do.


17 posted on 01/19/2006 6:42:55 PM PST by Lejes Rimul (I was right about Iraq all along. Told you so.)
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To: Lejes Rimul

No, you're right, it's not. That's not because I in any way desire any war, ever, but because I recognize that until the terrorist regimes in Damascus and Tehran are removed, we are very far from the end of the War on Terror. We have to achieve "regime change" in Syria and Iran to even begin to hope for a resolution of the problem of Islamo-fascist terrorism. To paraphrase Churchill, the Iraq War is not the end or the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning. If you don't like to hear that, maybe it's because you are like most our our Democratic Party and the EU, and you hope that we make nice and roll over and hope that the terrorists will be nice to us.


18 posted on 01/19/2006 6:47:25 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: Lejes Rimul

Hogwash. Iran was the ultimate target when Afghanistan and Iraq were put in play.

If you don't understand that, you aren't paying attention.


19 posted on 01/19/2006 6:47:25 PM PST by DoNotDivide (Ask the Lord to make Himself real to you and receive His love today, while you still can!)
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To: blam

"Damascus a ruinous heap."


20 posted on 01/19/2006 6:48:08 PM PST by OKSooner
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