More nonsense from the UN and its looney inhabitants. Bruce Syrian 'Tirade' Sparks U.N. Firestorm By NICK WADHAMS Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS Syria's foreign minister sparked a brief diplomatic dustup in the U.N. Security Council on Monday when he suggested that the United States, Spain and Britain knew in advance about terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London.
Farouk Al-Sharaa made the claim after the Security Council passed a resolution and backed a U.N. report that said the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could not have occurred without Damascus' approval. His remarks drew heated denunciations from British Foreign Minister Jack Straw and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who called al-Sharaa's comments an "unbelievable tirade" and "bizarre." The testy exchange between al-Sharaa and Straw punctured a morning of largely civil speeches once the Security Council passed a resolution demanding Syria cooperate with a probe into Hariri's assassination. After 11 foreign ministers and four U.N. ambassadors went around the council table demanding Syria's cooperation with the investigation, Al-Sharaa took the floor in his nation's defense. He rejected the probe's findings that Hariri's Feb. 14 assassination could not have occurred without Syrian involvement. He argued that such a conclusion would be tantamount to claiming that U.S., Spanish and British authorities knew ahead of time about the terrorist attacks that struck their soil on Sept. 11, 2001, March 11, 2004 and July 7 of this year. Al-Sharaa then went even further. "We know that such security organs, particularly the British, were fully aware that such attacks would take place and had prior training to face up to them," al-Sharaa said, jabbing his finger in the air toward Straw, with Rice and the other foreign ministers looking on. Once al-Sharaa finished, Straw took the floor to respond. Clearly indignant, he repeatedly looked over at al-Sharaa along the council's horseshoe-shaped table as he denounced his remarks. "I was not going to respond until I heard the foreign minister of Syria make what I can only describe as the most grotesque and insensitive comparison," he said. If al-Sharaa was suggesting that those three governments knew about the attacks, Straw said, "I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless." Al-Sharaa then requested the floor yet again and backed down slightly. He stressed that Syria wanted to cooperate with the Hariri probe and that his country had condemned the New York and London attacks many times. "We sent many messages of condolence and sympathy and expressed our condolences many a time following the underground attacks in July," he said. After the council meeting ended soon after, Rice told reporters that al-Sharaa's "really unbelievable tirade" only reaffirmed that Syria wanted to discredit the U.N.-backed probe into Hariri's killing. "It was a tirade that made the most bizarre connection of what had happened to Rafik Hariri" with the attacks in New York, Madrid and London, Rice said. 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