| Date: | Sunday April 13, @07:40PM |
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| Author: | admin |
| Topic: | Bush |
| from the independent.co.uk dept. | |
US warns Syria not to provide haven for wanted Iraqis
By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent
14 April 2003
Syria faced renewed warnings from America yesterday not to provide safe haven for senior figures in Saddam Hussein's regime.
Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, increased the diplomatic pressure on Damascus while Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defence, extended his rhetoric against the Syrians, insisting that "there's no question" that some senior Iraqi leaders had fled to Syria. "We certainly are hopeful Syria will not become a haven for war criminals or terrorists," Mr Rumsfeld said.
President George Bush added to the pressure, saying: "Syria just needs to co-operate with the United States and our coalition partners, not harbour any Baathists, any military officials, any people who need to be held to account."
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Lawrence Eagleburger, who was US Secretary of State under George Bush Snr, told the BBC: "If George Bush decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes.In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=397011
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