Nations Predict Tough Resolution on Syria

Nations Predict Tough Resolution on Syria


Saturday October 29, 2005 2:31 AM

By EDITH M. LEDERER

Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States, France and Britain predicted Friday that the U.N. Security Council will adopt a tough resolution demanding Syria's cooperation in the investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister. But Russia and Algeria oppose its threat of sanctions.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said he expects the resolution to be put to a vote at a ministerial meeting of the Security Council on Monday. Foreign ministers from 13 of the 15 council nations are expected to attend, Bolton said.

The draft resolution - co-sponsored by the United States, France and Britain - strongly backs a report by the U.N. investigating commission which implicated top Syrian and Lebanese security officials in the assassination of Rafik Hariri and accused Syria of not cooperating fully with the probe.

It would require Syria to detain anyone the U.N. investigators consider a suspect and allow the individual to be questioned outside the country or without Syrian officials present. It would also immediately freeze the assets and impose a travel ban on anyone identified as a suspect by the commission.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5377693,00.html

One of the best blogs anywhere is Josh Landis':http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/

Thoughts on Syrian politics, history and religion.

...this is what the neo-cons desire. Delusional ideologues. They think this is 1957. Just by increasing indirect support for unconventional warfare in Iraq, this policy will have unbelievable blowback. Syria, Iran, and the little understood Islamic financial infrastructure will put the costs right back on us. Our downside exposure in Iraq is tremendous.

By the way, I think the blog article on Syria is complete bs. The administrations Syria policy is astute? Who are they trying to fool? Who wrote this propaganda? Reform in Syria? This is definitely not the neo-con agenda. It's imperial power politics as usual based on delusions about the relative strength of our regime vis a vis the rest of the world.

for the alleged, and remarkably unsupported, crimes of a handful. But there's no bias against Muslims, right? Have Israel or the US ever been placed under sanctions for their assassinations or UN violations? No bigotry here, nope!

We have to. F8ck these bigots.

Another propaganda headline.

The UN should speak with one voice about the actions of Syria in Lebanon.

Syria was butting itself into Lebanon's business long before the U.S. was butting itself into Iraq's business. Both are wrong.

butting into Lebanon's business?

Just asking.

I work for a large manufacturing company that exports to all over the world. I personally work with India and we have been having trouble getting space on vessels heading that direction from the west coast.

The reasons we are getting from our shippers is that the US govt has the authority to take space on container ships when they need to move military equipment.
We had a lot of problems get space on ships a few years ago when we were gearing up for Iraq, now we have been told that the space is being taken up on ships heading to Syria.

Obviously this is at best third party info, but I will be keeping an eye open for what develops.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

It is so tragic that we are never held accountable for anything we do.

Bush piss in his pants.