BBC: UK says it's 'showtime' for Syria

[allemand]

The current international pressure on Syria is "entirely deserved" and it is now "showtime" for its president, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says.

He said a Syrian official's claims that President Assad had threatened Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri before his murder were "very serious indeed."

Mr Straw was speaking to the BBC as he started a visit to Lebanon, which has been dominated for decades by Syria.
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He said that though the UK and its allies did not encourage or anticipate a collapse of the Syrian government, it was being weakened from within.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4579442.stm


In related news, the former "Syrian official" who made the accusation against Assad is already in talks to form a government-in-exile:

Kuwait's as-Seyassah daily reported Wednesday that former Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam was working towards forming a government-in-exile after he spoke out against the Syrian regime in a televised interview from Paris.
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060104-073510-5230r

[Moochy]

1. Great Special Effects

I laughed I cried! It's SHOWTIME in SYRIA!! Can Bush/Blair's minions get any stupider ?

[Straight Shooter]

2. "Showtime"?

Good grief, I hate that playground talk.

[Yavin4]

3. This Won't Work

Syria is insistent on HBO, not Showtime.

[HuffleClaw]

4. oh sure, if it was BLAIR being called before the UN...

he'd refuse, and so would bush. this is a complete crock.

[allemand]

5. There is no discussion whatsoever in our media of the legal implications

of this unprecedented move, the questioning of a sitting head of state by a UN commission. Can you believe it? It is a world's first, but nobody even notices.

:grr:

[MasonJar]

6. With the war crimes that the US and the UK are guilty of it is

embarrassing to see such bombastic balderdash. Just shut up or better still, go straight to the Hague.