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2003-11-06 Syria-Lebanon

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Posted by mercutio 2003-11-06 5:54:23 PM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1755 views since 2007-05-07] Top

1 I'll drink to that!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-11-6 6:15:36 PM|| 2003-11-6 6:15:36 PM|| Front Page Top

2 Pithy as well as remarkably honest. I haven't been able to locate this on Memri, yeah I'm getting lazy this late in the "day" - got a direct link to a page?

Posted by .com (RoPMA) 2003-11-6 6:24:35 PM|| 2003-11-6 6:24:35 PM|| Front Page Top

3 They left out the Saudi regime, the Iranian, the Pakistani, the Egyptian...

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-6 6:40:37 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-6 6:40:37 PM|| Front Page Top

4 Lybian, Yemen, Sudanese...

Posted by Yank 2003-11-6 6:54:05 PM|| 2003-11-6 6:54:05 PM|| Front Page Top

5 .com --- Go to "previous reports", then "news ticker headlines". URL is

http://www.memri.org/ticker.html

But mercutio has reproduced the whole of the item, so it doesn't gain you anything. I wonder what else, if anything, Al-Quds Al-Arabi had to say about it. Its editor is (or was) Abdel-Bari Atwan, frequent guest on the anti-American BBC program Dateline:London (he was one of the *least* anti-American on the show), and supposedly had "close ties" to (pre-war) Iraq.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-11-6 7:14:52 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-11-6 7:14:52 PM|| Front Page Top

6 Thanks, Angie. I used to frequently torture myself with the Beeb Dateline show, but became disgusted when even the Americans they invited to receive the bashing were apologists or nervous nellies. Even Perle waffled a bit, though smugly so. I dunno if this was their "regular" Arab or not - if so, I know who you mean - and that makes this much clearer. He's being dramatic and saying the war-mongering US has already written the Syrian epitaph. More subtly than his usual excited style, but that would be how I'd take it if he said it on Beeb. Sound about right to you, assuming he's the mustachiod long-faced western-clothes excitable guy I think he is?

Posted by .com (RoPMA) 2003-11-6 7:33:26 PM|| 2003-11-6 7:33:26 PM|| Front Page Top

7 .com---Mugshot here.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-11-6 9:48:04 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-11-6 9:48:04 PM|| Front Page Top

8 Rex Mundi - way ahead of you there...

Posted by Raj 2003-11-6 10:48:36 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-11-6 10:48:36 PM|| Front Page Top

9 Come on Robert C. Baby Steps.

Posted by Daniel King 2003-11-7 10:25:59 AM|| 2003-11-7 10:25:59 AM|| Front Page Top

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