- Israel also charged with bombed the Jordanian Embassy,
Abu Gharib Prison and the Water Main
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- Shortly after the bombing of the U.N. headquarters in
Baghdad (8-19-03) that claimed at least 23 lives ÅEincluding that
of U.N. envoy Sergio de Mello, Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, Foreign
Minister Farouq Al-Shar', and Ambassador to the U.N. Faisal Miqdad issued
strongly-worded statements of condemnation. A few days later, the Syrian
government press began to hint at who, in Syria's view, was behind the
bombing: Israel. The following are excerpts from recent articles in the
Syrian government daily Teshreen:
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- Hell's Gates Have Opened
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- In her regular column in the Syrian government daily
Teshreen,<http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD56503#_edn1>
[1] Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Dr. Buthaina Sha'aban wrote: "Before
the war in Iraq, President Bashar Assad said in an interview with an Austrian
newspaper, 'The war in Iraq will open the gates of hell.' Now, we in the
Middle East feel that the gates of hell have indeed opened and have begun
to consume the best of the people living on this globe and working to make
it a better place for the entire human race. The death of Sergio de Mello,
the U.N. envoy to Iraq, is one of the greatest, most distressing, and most
surprising losses to result from the American occupation of Iraq.
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- "ÅEhe views that de Mello emphasized prove
that whoever killed him wanted to thwart this plan ÅE[a plan] which
underscores the honor and identity of Iraq and respects the ability of
Iraqis to rule their country. Whoever killed de Mello has no consideration
for international legitimacy and no respect for the sacred role played
by U.N. personnel under conditions such as those now prevailing in Iraq,
risking their lives to carry out noble, humanitarian acts and to assist
the peopleÅEDe Mello's death means the death of the resolute views
represented by this professional and humane man, and epitomized by his
work..."
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- In Whose Interest Was It?
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- "In whose interest was the creation of anarchy and
destruction in Iraq? In whose interest was [bringing] the loss of security
and stability to Iraq and the entire Arab region? Who, through such crimes,
works for prolonging the hell for which Arabs are paying with their lives,
with their future, and with their children's future?ÅEWhy is there
talk of the reasons for hatred and animosity [for America] at a time when
Israel's largest budget allocations are for besieging the occupied cities,
destroying homes, arresting youths, and killing children?ÅE
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- "De Mello devoted himself to helping the Iraqi peopleÅE[but]
was killed by a hand with a supreme interest in prolonging this anarchy
and destruction. De Mello's murder shows that terror does not discriminate
between color, religion, ethnic origin, or nationality. It is, rather,
a force of absolute evil, acting against the forces of good, security,
and peace. The forces of good and peace in the world must unite today to
put an end to this insane and useless killing, so that de Mello and others,
who believed in and worked for humanitarianism, will not have died in vain."
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- The U.N. ÅEA Perpetual Target of Israeli Terror
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- An editorial in the Syrian government daily Teshreen<http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD56503#_edn2>
[2] accused Israel in explicit terms: "The list of Israel's crimes,
especially crimes of terror, is long and expansive, and it begins even
before the entity's establishment in 1948.
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- "ÅEt must be mentioned that the U.N. has always
been a target for Israeli terror. It did not begin with the murder of the
international mediator [Count Folke] Bernadotte in Jerusalem in 1948, and
did not end with the aerial attack on U.N. headquarters in Qana [Lebanon]
in 1996.
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- "There is a long list of Israeli attacks and plots
against the U.N. and its envoys. Israel has not recognized a single U.N.
resolution involving this region, except for the resolution for its own
establishmentÅEThis is proven in the official positions and famous
declarations of Israeli prime ministers and foreign ministers, which hold
that U.N. resolutions are not worth the paper on which they are written.
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- "The U.N., representing international legitimacy,
is even now a direct target for Israeli aggression. We cannot help but
mention the Zionist Hagana and Lehi gangs, which took it upon themselves
to kill everything Arab and everything likely to disrupt the Zionist expansion
plan. The heads of these gangs ÅEfor example, Menahem Begin, Yitzhak
Shamir, and Ariel Sharon ÅEbegan their lives by killing and shedding
blood, destroying villages, and scorning and banishing the Palestinian
peopleÅE
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- "Does the current Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel
Sharon, not represent the head of crime in the region and the world?ÅEHe
is one of the Israeli prime ministers with the strongest hatred for the
U.NÅE
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- "Who can say that what happened at the U.N. headquarters
in Baghdad was not by the hands of the Zionist gangs, represented by the
Israeli occupation army, and by the intelligence apparatuses headed by
the Mossad, which has committed similar crimes against countries, governments,
and international figures in the past?"<http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD56503#_edn3>
[3]
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- Israeli Terror in Baghdad
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- Another Teshreen<http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD56503#_edn4>
[4] editorial blamed Israel for other recent terrorist acts in Iraq: "ÅEhe
first act was the bombing of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad using the
familiar Israeli method of a booby-trapped carÅEThe second act was
the bombing of the Abu Gharib prison, in which dozens of prisoners were
killed and wounded. The third act was two motorcyclists' bombing of the
Baghdad water mainÅE
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- "Such acts have one aim: to prove that the resistance
is sowing destruction among the Iraqi people and against the Arab brethren
and the U.NÅE
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- "There is no doubt that Israel faces security dangers
from Hizbullah in Lebanon and from resistance factions in the West Bank
and Gaza. To prove the validity of his claims, Sharon has complicated the
situation, thus also providing a cover for the aerial bridge that brought
Mossad members and equipment to Baghdad. This Zionist unit hastened to
act, beginning with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy."
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