Sunday, 06 August 2006
JPost: Syria 'ready for possible regional war'
Contributed by Bill Faith

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem crossed into Lebanon Sunday for the first visit by a top Syrian official in more than a year, Lebanon's state news agency said.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting with his Lebanese counterpart, Fawzi Salloukh, Moallem said "Syria is ready for the possibility of a regional war if the Israeli aggression continues."

He added that a US-French draft resolution to end the war "adopted Israel's point of view only." Underlining his support for Hizbullah, Moallem said, "as Syria's foreign minister I hope to be a soldier in the resistance."

Salloukh said that "Israel cannot take in peace what it had failed to take in war."

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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 6, 2006 at 10:28 AM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Lebanon, Syria | Permalink

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