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Date Posted: 01:27:34 04/16/03 Wed
Author: Weird_Enigma
Author Host/IP: 67.30.199.93
Subject: Bush: Syria has chemical arms, must 'cooperate'

Or else Bush will attack Syria too? Sounds like another war brewing. will Bush the warmonger ever stop?

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WASHINGTON - President Bush on Sunday accused Syria of having weapons of mass destruction and of harboring fleeing Iraqi leaders, raising questions about whether that country might be the next U.S. target.

"We believe there are chemical weapons in Syria," Bush said. "Each situation will require a different response and, of course ... first things first. We're in Iraq now, and the second thing about Syria is that we expect cooperation."

He also said he expects Syria to stop harboring cronies of Saddam Hussein believed to have fled there.

"The Syrian government needs to cooperate with the United States and our coalition partners and not harbor any Baathists, any military officials, any people who need to be held to account for their tenure" in Iraq, Bush told reporters Sunday.

Bush, appearing in an expansive mood on the day that seven American prisoners of war were recovered in good health, sidestepped a question about whether the United States might threaten war against Syria if it did not cooperate with U.S. demands. "They just need to cooperate," he said in response.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also brushed aside questions about war with Syria.

"That's above my pay grade," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. "Those are the kinds of things that countries and presidents decide."

Rumsfeld said senior Iraqi leaders have fled to Syria, and some have continued on to other unnamed countries. He did not identify any, but The Washington Times quoted U.S. government officials as saying that two Iraqi biological weapons scientists were among those making it to Damascus, Syria: Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, whom U.S. officials call "Mrs. Anthrax," and Rihab Taha, known as "Dr. Germ."

Syrian officials denied that Iraqi officials had escaped to their country.

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