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SyriaRelations With The Iraqi Baath Party:(the Twin-regimes Of Terrorism) |
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by mark dameli
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11 Dec 2003
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Using the same fascist means in an extreme competition to rule over the Arab countries while claming the highest level of hater to the US and the West. |
Saddam of Iraq vs Asad of Syria
The Twin-regimes of Terrorism
Saddam Housain, Ex-dictator of Iraq
Officer Saddam Hussein seized power in 1979 leading the Baath Arab Party of Iraq.
Asad Family, Dictators of Syria
Officer Hafez Assad seized power in 1970 leading the Baath Arab Party of Syria.
Baath Totalitarian Regime in Iraq:
The Baath party gradually took over political and economical life in Iraq and became the only legal party in the country. Iraq is a republic by constitution, but the Socialist totalitarian regime was governing the nation.
Baath Totalitarian Regime in Syria:
The Baath party gradually took over political and economical life in Syria and became the only legal party in the country. Syria is a republic by constitution, but the Socialist totalitarian regime is governing the nation
Baath Rule of Iraq:
The opposition figures were persecuted, arrested, executed and even assassinated abroad. Iraq became a police-state ruled by fear and brutality.
The dictator of Iraq was running fake elections were he was âre-electedâ as president with 99.99% of the votes for consecutive terms until he was overthrown in April 2003.
Baath Rule of Syria:
The opposition figures were persecuted, arrested, executed and even assassinated abroad. Syria became a police-state ruled by fear and brutality.
The dictator of Syria was running fake elections were he was âre-electedâ as president with 99.99% of the votes for consecutive terms until he died in 2000. His son Bashar inherited his fatherâs position and policy in 2000 and started his own 99%-vote elections.
Iraqi Crimes against people of Iraq:
In addition to regular persecution, mass military operations were carried against Iraqis who oppose regime. In 1987 the baath regime killed thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq using chemical weapons. In 1992 the regime massacred thousands of opposition Shaiis in Southern Iraq and thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq destroying whole cities and villages.
Syrian Crimes against people of Syria:
In addition to regular persecution, mass military operations were carried against Syrians who oppose the regime. In 1980 the baath regime killed thousands of Syrians in Tadmor prisons and in the city of Hama. In 1982, the regime massacred more than thirty thousands of Syrians by completely destroying the city of Hama in full aerial and land attacks.
Occupying its small neighboring country of Kuwait:
Iraq is, roughly, 20 times larger than Kuwait
600 Kuwaitis believed to be killed in Iraqi prisons
On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi regime occupied its small neighboring country of Kuwait and appointed a puppet pro-Iraqi government there.
Hundreds of Kuwaitis civilians were killed or captured and spent their lives in Iraqi prisons until they died. The US and the International community lead a military coalition that liberated Kuwait on February 25, 1991.
Occupying its small neighboring country of Lebanon:
Syria is, roughly, 20 times larger than Lebanon
18,000 Lebanese believed to be killed in Syrian prisons
On October 13, 1990, the Syrian regime completely occupied its small neighboring country of Lebanon and appointed a puppet pro-Syrian government there.
Thousands of Lebanese civilians were killed or captured and spent their lives in Syrian prisons until they died. The US and the International community were busy with the Iraqi situation, which left Syria occupying Lebanon until this moment.
Iraqi Links to Terrorist Groups:
Uncertain relations to some terrorist groups, encouraged terrorist activities against the United States and West-European countries since 1990.
Syrian Links to Terrorist Groups:
Syria founded and sponsored several terrorist groups in self-occupied Lebanon and in Syria. Syrian sponsored groups carried several suicide attacks against Americans, West-Europeans and Lebanese since 1980âs killing hundreds. The Syrian regime has founded and sponsored terrorists that mastered hostage-taking and hijacking against American and West-European nationals and civil airplanes. Eleven terrorist groups listed in the US State Department use the Syrian capital as a headquarter.
Iraq Crimes against humanity:
Using WMD against Iraqi people
Massacring civilian Iraqis and civilian Kuwaitis in Iraq and occupied Kuwait
Detaining, torturing and killing thousands of prisoners in Iraq and Kuwait
Syria Crimes against humanity:
Using WMD against Syrian and Lebanese prisoners
Massacring civilian Syrians and civilian Lebanese in Syria and occupied Lebanon
Detaining, torturing and killing thousands of prisoners in Syria and Lebanon
Iraqi Relations with the Syrian Baath Party:
Using the same fascist means in an extreme competition to rule over the Arab countries while claming the highest level of hater to the US and the West.
Syrian Relations with the Iraqi Baath Party:
Using the same fascist means in an extreme competition to rule over the Arab countries while claming the highest level of hater to the US and the West.
Starting mid 90âs, the Syrian regime started smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of the United Nations' resolutions. This enabled Saddam Huseinâs regime to survive longer and helped selling its oil for weapons that were used later against the US and the allied troops. During the war of liberating Iraq, the Syrian totalitarian regime feared being the next tyranny to fall and supported Saddamâs troops by sending arms and paying mercenaries to fight against the US and the allied troops. The Syrian Foreign Minister announced that it is âSyrian national interest for the Allied troops to be defeatedâ
Iraq Misleading media
Mohammed al-Sahhaf
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the information minister of Saddamâs regime gave a descriptive example of the ways in which totalitarian regimes deceive the international community. His rhetoric speeches during the war claming false victory and claiming the support of Iraqis for Suddam were ridiculed by the actual events. Later, the world saw the real face of Saddamâs Regime âdeceiving but nicely- phrased lies.â
Syria Misleading media
Farouk Sharaa
The Syrian totalitarian regime keeps deceiving the world with rhetoric speeches about their kindness and proclaimed popularity. Nowadays, some governments in the free world still listen to the Sahhafs of Asadâs regime, such as Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa and the director of the foreign media department Buthina Shabaan. The Syrians are awaiting the fall of their dictatorship to show the world how much it was deceived by some nicely-phrased lies.
Statue of Saddam
After the collapse of Saddamâs regime, the Iraqi people celebrated the dictatorâs overthrown by destroying his numerous statues that were placed in every corner, and were guarded by the secrete service security.
Statue of Assad
Awaiting the collapse of Asadâs regime, the Syrians dare not but pay respect to his numerous statues that are placed in every corner, and guarded by the secrete service security. The statues of the Syrian dictator in Syria outnumbers those of Saddamâs in Iraq.
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Let The Syrians Settle It |
by ML
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Current rating: 0
11 Dec 2003
Modified: 07:54:23 PM |
Another tiresome excuse to start a war?
Just what Bush needs.
Screw that.
Go away and take you rpropaganda with you.
Besides, you would have made a more interesting comparison if you'd compared all the places the U.S. has invaded, all the people the U.S. has killed, and all the human rights the U.S has violated. It'd be a lot more than anything anyone in Syria has ever done. Looking for big league fascism? Call the Pentagon. |
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Syrian Minister Calls For enlightening Americans |
by Pat McDonnell Twair
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12 Dec 2003
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LOS ANGELES: Buthaina Shaaban is on a tough mission in the United States seeking to win the hearts and minds of Syrian expatriates by presenting Damascus views on the dispute with Washington.
On many stops on the tour, she tailored her remarks to suit her role as Syrias principal government spokesperson and minister of expatriates.
Addressing the Los Angeles World Affairs Council this week, the articulate diplomat highlighted Syrias support for the United States in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, for which the United States has shown no gratitude.
Syria was one of the first nations after Sept. 11 to cooperate with the US in its war against terrorism, she said. In seven different instances, our intelligence saved American lives. We tried to control our mutual border with Iraq to prevent escaping leaders of Saddam Husseins regime from entering. We also tried to quiet Hizbullah in southern Lebanon.
What thanks did we get? The US Congress passed the Syria Accountability Act, she said.
US President George W. Bushs war on terror may have brought more security to the US, she said, but terrorists have broadened their bases and mushroomed worldwide.
Turning to precarious tensions in the Middle East, Shaaban, who holds a doctorate in English literature from New York University, enumerated what she sees as the leading causes for the volatile situation.
First, the war on terrorism polarized people, nations and religions. The US lauds the West as the model for democracy while denigrating the Third World as an area that must be civilized.
Next is the acceptance of the might-is-right notion that those with superior military power can enforce rule on the unwilling.
We see images everyday of Iraqi men being rounded up, their hands and legs tied and plastic bags thrown over their heads. If they are bound, why must their heads be covered? Humiliation is the key word these days in the Middle East, said Shaaban.
Third, the neo-cons shaping Bushs Middle East strategies have established the policy of pre-emptive war. So now people are being killed because they may be planning operations, she added.
Shaaban quoted from the Koran and translated its meaning that no one should be held accountable for what another person does. Yet, she stressed, Syria, who has been fighting fundamentalist extremists, has been relegated by Washington as a state sponsoring terrorism.
It is shocking to be lumped in with this crowd, the spokesman declared. We are either going to swim or sink together. Fear is taking over and the happiest people are the terrorists. The only solution is speak to each other on a parity of dignity.
Giving her audience the benefit of the doubt, Shaaban said most Americans probably arent aware of military tactics in which Palestinian and Iraqi homes are invaded at night and the men dragged away. She cited ongoing Palestinian losses since the onset of the intifada that include 250 murdered children, 10,000 destroyed homes and 200,000 uprooted olive trees even as the Israelis build the apartheid wall and announce plans for 232 new illegal settlements.
If the objective of the US is peace and security in the Middle East, then Syria is eager to be its partner. But if the objective is to maintain occupation, it is a different story, she said.
Washington, Shaaban emphasized, tends to underestimate the intellect of the Arab people and assume they are unaware of the hypocrisy.
Whats going on is against the interests of the American people. Proof is the huge barricades built to protect American embassies throughout the Middle East, she said, but averring Arabs distinguish the American people from the forces formulating US foreign policy.
s for Bushs frequently stated concerns for downtrodden Arab women, Shaaban said: This makes us smile. My great-grandmothers were writers. Sixty percent of Syrias professors are women. The Prophets wife, Khadija, was a businesswoman.
Why should the Americans know better how to run our country than we do? It is our country and we are intelligent enough to handle our own affairs, she said.
The Daily Star asked Shaaban how her ministry viewed the status of expatriates wishing to return to Syria but who have not fulfilled their military obligations.
It depends on the situation, she replied. All are welcome to make a visit of three months each year.
Since her Sept. 19 presidential appointment as expatriates minister, she has laid the groundwork for a Damascus conference in August for expatriates living all over the world.
Does she hold any optimism for the future?
I do, she responded. When I hear the growing voices of European and US peace proponents, I have hope they will unite and prevail over the reactionaries now in control.
Shaaban excelled in her capacity as expatriates minister when she delivered the keynote speech Sunday at the second annual fundraising dinner of the Syrian American Womens Association (SAWA) in the posh Four Seasons Hotel in Newport Beach.
Her presence drew over 400 Syrian Americans who donated nearly $100,000 to SAWAs foundation which provides medical care and cochlear implants to deaf Arab children.
In the past two years SAWA has sponsored American medical teams to travel to Damascus to restore the hearing of 26 needy deaf children including one child from Ramallah
Proceeds raised Sunday will pay for a six-member medical team to conduct a minimum of 30 surgeries over 10 days in June. It is also paying speech pathologists from the John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles to travel to Damascus and conduct training sessions at a new speech and hearing rehabilitation center. This project is the brainchild of SAWA President Sawsan Abdin Kosi.
While introducing the minister, who arrived from Washington that day, Kosi said the first individual to offer assistance to SAWA in Syria was Buthaina Shaaban.
Many expatriates on hand remarked that the minister spoke flawlessly and eloquently in classical Arabic, always addressing her listeners as Arabs, not Syrians.
Wherever they have emigrated, Arabs always felt they belonged to the country they settled in without forgetting their motherland. They saw no conflict in being loyal to both.
Yet, it is surprising in light of the number of Arab people in the US that the image of Arabs is not better, she said.
Shaaban allowed that many Arab immigrants tend to want to melt into American society, but she urged them to take pride in their Arab identity because that identity is threatened.
Decisions wouldnt be taken by Washington if the American people were aware of whats going on, of the homes being destroyed, the olive trees being uprooted and the people being killed and maimed, she said.
All Arabs are paying the price for the American peoples ignorance of what is going on in the Middle East, she said, and urged Arab Americans to meet this challenge by informing the public of the injustices taking place in the Middle East.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb |
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Talking Points On Syria |
by A Reprint form ZNET
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14 Dec 2003
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Recent statements by top Bush administration officials have accused the Syrian government of aiding senior Iraqi officials to escape, possessing chemical weapons, and committing "hostile acts" against the U.S. by allegedly supplying military equipment, such as night-vision goggles, to the Iraqis. On April 10th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told Congress, "The Syrians are behaving badly. They need to be reminded of that, and if they continue, then we need to think about what our policy is with respect to a country that harbors terrorists or harbors war criminals, or was in recent times shipping things to Iraq." People should keep in mind the following points in response to administration claims:
" Syria, despite being ruled by the Baath Party, has historically been a major rival of Iraq's Baath regime. Syria was the only Arab country to back Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. It was one of the only non-monarchical Arab states to have backed the United States against Iraq during the first Gulf War. Iraq and Syria backed rival factions in Lebanon's civil war. As a member of the United Nations Security Council, Syria voted this past November in favor of the U.S.-backed resolution 1441 that demanded full cooperation by the Baghdad government with United Nations inspectors, with the threat of severe consequences if it failed to do so. However, Syria--like most countries in the world--has strongly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
" Syria's long, porous border with Iraq has been the entry point of hundreds of volunteers from around the Arab world, many of whom are Iraqi exiles, who have come to fight what they see as the conquest of an Arab country by a Western power. There is no evidence that the Syrian government has been directly sending mercenaries or other soldiers into Iraq to fight U.S. forces. Allowing armed individuals to assist a neighboring state against an invading army is considered legitimate under international law.
" There is no evidence that Iraq has moved any weapons of mass destruction or related technology and raw materials into Syria. With open deserts, mostly cloudless days, and detailed surveillance by satellites and aircraft, the movement of such material would likely have been detected. The United Nations Monitoring and Verification Commission (UNMOVIC), empowered by the United Nations Security Council to verify the destruction of Iraq's WMD programs, disputes Bush administration claims that such proscribed materials have made their way out of the country.
" There is no evidence that Syria has developed chemical weapons of its own. While it certainly cannot be ruled out, Syria is no more likely to possess such weapons than Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and other regional powers, underscoring the need for a multilateral approach to arms control by the international community. Syria has never used--nor has it ever threatened to use--chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
" The Bush administration has not presented clear evidence that large numbers of Iraqi leaders have escaped to Syria. Even if they have, Syria has no legal obligation to hand them over to U.S. authorities, given that the U.S. occupation of Iraq has not been recognized by the international community. Until an internationally recognized authority in Baghdad, the International Criminal Court, or other duly-constituted body makes such an extradition request, Syria is not obliged to turn over any suspects from the former Iraqi government.
" Syria, with less than half of Iraq's population and only a tiny fraction of Iraq's oil resources, was never as powerful militarily as was Iraq during the height of Baghdad's military prowess in the 1980s. Syria's military strength has declined since that period, as a result of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, which had supplied the Damascus regime with large-scale military aid, including armaments, training, and other military assistance.
" According to U.S. State Department officials, the Syrian government has not been directly involved in any acts of international terrorism since the 1980s. Damascus has been the home base of a number of small and largely moribund radical Palestinian exile groups, some of which engaged in terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s.
" The United States initially supported Syria's 1976 invasion of Lebanon, which was authorized by the Arab League as a means of preventing victory by the radical Lebanese National Movement and its Palestinian allies in the civil war. Syrian forces have remained in Lebanon ever since and Syria exerts enormous political leverage over the Lebanese government, particularly regarding the country's foreign affairs. During much of Lebanon's civil war, Syria actively supported Amal, a militia based in the country's Shiite community that engaged in military campaigns against the Palestinian Al-Fatah militia, the Iranian-backed Hizbollah militia, and the Maronite Phalangist militia, among others. Since the end of the civil war in 1990, the Syrians have provided limited support to Hizbollah in its ultimately successful campaign to force Israeli occupation forces out of southern Lebanon, and is believed to continue to back the radical Shiite group's scaled-down militia today. There is still some periodic fighting between Hizbollah militiamen and Israeli occupation forces in the disputed Shebaa Farms area on the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied section of southwestern Syria.
" Syria has agreed to grant full diplomatic relations with Israel, demilitarize border areas, allow for international peacekeepers, and provide other security guarantees to Israel, as part of a peace agreement where Israel would withdraw from Syrian territory seized by Israeli forces in the 1967 war. A peace agreement between Israel and Syria based upon this formula came close to fruition in the late 1990s until talks broke down over a relatively minor dispute on the actual placement of the border resulting from conflicting demarcation maps from the colonial era. Since then, a right-wing Israeli government has come to power and has rejected such a peace treaty, refusing to resume negotiations.
" Syria has an authoritarian government that has been charged by reputable human rights organizations with widespread and systematic human rights violations. The government has liberalized somewhat in recent years, however, both economically and politically. While still denying its people basic democratic rights, the current level of repression by the Damascus government is less than it has been in previous decades, less than that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and less than that of Saudi Arabia and other American allies.
These FPIF Talking Points were compiled by Stephen Zunes. Zunes <stephen (at) coho.org stephen (at) coho.org>> is Middle East editor for Foreign Policy In Focus, an associate professor of politics at the University of San Francisco, and author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press). A longer version of this article is available and will be periodically updated on FPIF's website (online at www.fpif.org <http://www.fpif.org>).
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SYRIA NEEDS NUKES! |
by Pipard
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Current rating: -2
14 Dec 2003
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This is just one of numerous anti-Syrian SPAM-like posts in the last few weeks that these guys have put on almost all of the INDYMEDIA sites, running right wing pro imperialist propaganda. Some of these guys posts even have links to a Syrian expatriate outfit that is openly calling for a US invasion of Syria.
These Lebanese Christian Phalangist fascist exiles and so-called "Syrian Reform Party" guys ALL stink of CIA and Mossad and here is my answer to these slick scumbags:
SYRIA NEEDS NUKES - THE MORE THE BETTER!
This is to defend itself against it's enemies and I say any anti-imperialist or real Arab would support Syria loading up on as many weapons it can get it's hands on, Nukes included! The more the Better!!
You know, the folks who have been writing these posts sure don't sound like Arabs and are probably all a bunch of CIA and Mossad employees. I wouldn't be surprised if their whole organizations are CIA fronts, especially the so-called "Reform Party of Syria", whose members virtually all reside in the U.S.
The proof that they are not genuinely Arab-run organizations are that their Web-sites are virtually always silent on Israeli crimes and Zionism and obsessively place sole blame on the Syrians and Palestinians for all of the tensions in the Middle East, which no normal Arab would do, pro-Syrian or not, so it makes you wonder.
The sites linked to these posts are also actively encouraging and inviting an American Imperialist invasion of Syria, which no self-respecting Arab would do, no matter how they feel about an Arab country's government.
Syria is doing quite well and needs no "liberating" by the US and by opportunists like these folks. Women are relatively free in Syria,(particularly compared to the US allies like Saudi Arabia, where women are slaves, or Egypt, where most women have their clitoris cut off). In Syria the Religious nuts are kept in their place and Jews, Christians and other minorities are not harassed. Also, many big industries in Syria are public property, most people are doing ok economically and making money, and the Country has it's Dignity intact, (unlike the Whores who run Jordan, Egypt and the other countries who are on their knees groveling before the Warlords of Washington, the Zionists and the Capitalists of the West).
These Opportunist Parasites are hoping that the Americans will invade Syria, dropping bombs and murdering thousands of more Arabs, and they dream of riding into Damascus on the back of American tanks and getting to be the American and Israeli Puppet Government of Syria, (like Chalabi in Iraq), but that ain't gonna happen, as Syria is smart politically and also has the ability to fight back militarily.
A final note! The Iraqi people are bumping off the Iraqi US puppet Quislings one at a time and they will someday hang Chalabi and the rest of the US Puppet government by their intestines from light poles! (Iraqi phoney Revisionist Communist Party leaders included - as they have also sold out and joined the puppet council) In Afghanistan the US puppet Karzai has to go around with a personal detachment of US military guarding his ass just to keep that US "water-boy" from getting killed.
This is a just fate that also awaits any Lebanese or Syrian Arab Americans who think they can slime their way into power in the Arab countries on American coat-tails! The Lebanese and Syrian people's lives are today more stable and safer than they have been in decades and their is virtually no support inside either Lebanon or Syria for these phony "reform" movements, and even the Maronite Church has denounced the so-called "Syrian Accountability Act", enacted into law by pro-Israeli U.S. zionist Democrats. (By the way, who the fuck does the United States Government think it is to talk about holding Syria "accountable" for anything). It is US imperialism that has invaded more Countries than Hitler in the last 50 years and which has invaded two countries in just the last two years alone. The US has invaded Haiti, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, bombed Somalia and Lebanon, and mined Nicaragua's harbors in just the last twenty years alone. The Syrian government looks like a bunch of Boy Scouts next to the Warlords of Washington! It is the U.S. Ruling Class that is feared and hated by the majority of the World's people and it is the US ruling Class that will be someday be held accountable by the people of the world for it's War Crimes against the above victim countries.
(One final note, most of these Lebanese fascist SPAM-ers haven't even been in an Arab country for most of their lives and would need a tour-guide to find their way around the streets of Beirut)!
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