Assad Defends Anti-U.S. Attacks in Iraq

Wednesday April 28, 2004 9:31 PM


By HUSSEIN DAKROUB

Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad described armed attacks against U.S.-led troops in neighboring Iraq as legitimate ``resistance'' against foreign occupation.

His remarks, aired Wednesday on the Qatar-based pan-Arab al-Jazeera satellite station, are likely to strain already tense U.S.-Syrian relations.

Assad, whose country strongly opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq, said anti-American resistance was widespread in Iraq, where most people opposed the U.S. occupation.

``The public reaction (in Iraq to the U.S. occupation) ... gives legitimacy to the resistance,'' Assad said, adding that Iraqi opposition stems from the killing of Iraqi civilians by American-led soldiers.


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driver skit where the Pakistani taxi driver, asked to give input into Bush*'s "strategy," reacts to calling the war a "Crusade"... "no, no, please, no Crusade..."

I mean, wtf?

I suppose now he'll be called an enemy combatant for making an accurate statement about the invasion.