Syrian FM blasts US 'fabrications'

Syria's foreign minister on Monday accused "sources in the United States" of fabricating news about the target of a mysterious Israeli attack last month, reported to be either weapons headed for Hizbullah guerrillas or a nascent nuclear installation.

In a speech to the UN General Assembly's ministerial meeting, Walid al-Moualem called the "Israeli aggression" proof that the Jewish state wants to escalate.

Al-Moualem warned that the failure of the UN Security Council and the international community to condemn "this act of aggression would encourage Israel to persist in this hostile pursuit, and lead to an exacerbation of tensions in the region."

"Some sources in the United States have spread rumors and fabricated news in order to justify this act of aggression," al-Moualem charged. "By distorting the facts they have become Israel's accomplices in this act of aggression."

Al-Moualem stressed that peace remains the "strategic choice" of Syria, based on recovering the Golan Heights, but he said "actions and realities" suggest that the Israeli government and the current US administration do not have "the will to make a genuine peace."

He indicated that Syria was not prepared at this point to attend a US-sponsored international peace conference this fall, echoing Syrian President Bashar Assad's comments earlier to the BBC.

Al-Moualem said "the contemplated substance, approach and objectives" of the peace conference "remain vague."

"Furthermore, the proposed gathering fails to identify the purposes, basics, terms of reference and time frames of the process," he said.

While there is talk of peace, al-Moualem said "challenges and tensions are escalating" threatening security and stability not only in the Mideast but also internationally.

"The hopes of the peoples of the region in arriving at a just and comprehensive peace and living in a secure and stable environment have faded if not totally died," he said. "Moreover, the current situation in Iraq, and the attendant anger and apprehensions it has generated, have turned the region into a hotbed of tensions and a theater for confrontations."

Al-Moualem said the solution in Iraq "must begin with national reconciliation" and include a withdrawal of foreign forces, "subject to the agreement of the Iraqi government."

More than 1.6 million Iraqis have fled to Syria, he said, but the assistance Syria has received to help them "is almost negligible."

He singled out the United States, which is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on military operations, but he charged that it "fails to allocate any resources to assist Iraqis who have been forced out."

We know the Facts Walid al-Moualem, so you should stop taking talking
points from Pelosi and her butler Reid.

Al-Moualem stressed that peace remains the "strategic choice" of Syria,
based on recovering the Golan Heights,
That's a good one Uncle Pelosi.

but he charged that it "fails to allocate any resources
to assist Iraqis who have been forced out."
Now that's Knee slapping funny!

"...option of retaliation."

Right!

Reuters Wednesday, June 28, 2006; 3:06 PM

JERUSALEM, June 28 (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes flew over one of President Bashar al-Assad's palaces on Wednesday to warn Syria against supporting Palestinian militants who abducted an Israeli soldier, the Israeli army said.

Israeli media reports said four planes carried out the overflights at low altitude, early in the morning, and created several sonic booms.

An army spokeswoman said the planes flew over Assad's palace near the city of Latakia, "because the Syrian leadership supports and harbours terrorist leaders, among them Hamas, the kidnappers of the soldier".

Israeli media said Assad was at the palace at the time.

The armed wing of the ruling Hamas movement was among the three factions that took part in the cross-border raid into Israel from Gaza in which the soldier was seized on Sunday, but it has not said it is holding him.

Israeli leaders have accused Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal of being responsible for the kidnapping.

Exiled Hamas leaders say they were not involved in the operation to capture the soldier, but are taking seriously Israeli threats to kill them.

A senior Syrian official told Reuters that two Israeli planes had penetrated Syrian air space and that Syrian air defences forced them to leave. Israeli television said no ground to air missiles were fired at the Israeli aircraft.

"This is a provocative action and it is totally rejected," the Syrian official said. Syrian political commentator Thabet Salem said in Damascus: "The Israelis are trying to make their problems into a regional one because the capture of the solider and settler is embarrassing for their military establishment."

Ferret face had to change his underwear after that little exercise too...

The “story untold” is the reaction of the Syrians and Iranians to the FACT that Israeli Jets penetrated DEEP into Syria, destroyed a facility and escaped — unscathed, because they were UNDETECTED.

The expensive and “modern” air defense system they purchased from Russia failed to detect the entry and therefore also failed to fire any anti-aircraft ordnance!

Why does this concern the Iranians, you ask?
Well - the Mullahs bought the same “hacked” system..

The Mullahs are now soiling their sheets, knowing they are DEFENSELESS against an air assault.. This is not good..
Because it is certain that one in on the agenda...

Stock prices on Depends and Huggys should be going up..

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