OT - Bush & Rice Should Also Be Offed

Get this ***. "Syria should be held accountable" for its ALLEGED
involvement in the Hariri assassination? Great. Then let's hold
Condeleeza-is-a-Skeeza and the Texas Cracker Gangster "accountable" too
-- since their involvement in dozens of assassinations around the world
is not merely alleged, they brag about it, including in
State-of-the-Union speeches. These "Christians" are so Old
Testament-infused? "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." A bullet
through their "brains" would be most appropriate.

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Syria Must Be Held Accountable for Hariri Killing, Rice Says

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- The international community must find a way to
hold Syrian authorities accountable for the death of a leading Lebanese
reformer, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.

Rice said she was deeply troubled by a U.N. report implicating Syria in
the killing last February of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Rice spoke to reporters after the release of a report by U.N.
investigator Detlev Mehlis that established a clear link between Syrian
officials and their Lebanese allies in Hariri's murder. She declined to
discuss next steps, beyond saying that some kind of international
mechanism must be established to ensure that Syria is held accountable.

Rice said there is strong support among U.N. members for an extension
of Mehlis' mandate, perhaps until Dec. 15.

''Accountability is going to be very important for the international
community,'' she said.

At the State Department, spokesman Adam Ereli declined to say what
course of action the Bush administration might take. But when asked if
military force would be used against Syria, he said, ''We are seeking a
diplomatic solution to this problem.''

The United Nations' exhaustive report linked the brother-in-law of
Syria's president to the Feb. 14 car bomb that killed Hariri and 20
others, and said Lebanese intelligence officials helped organize it.

The report stopped short of fingering Syrian President Bashar Assad or
his inner circle. But it said the regime failed to cooperate in the
inquiry. The report also alleged Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk
al-Sharaa lied in a letter to the investigating commission.

Hariri was the victim of a ''political crime'' that could not have been
carried out without the involvement of senior Syrian and Lebanese
intelligence officials, Assistant Secretary of State C. David Welch
said in Washington.

Declaring he was speaking for the U.S. government, the senior State
Department official said ''we would like to see those responsible for
this crime and others in Lebanon brought to justice.''

Welch, speaking at the Foreign Press Center, said the Bush
administration had begun discussions at the United Nations and with
Arab and other governments on how to act on the report, which he
described as ''very serious and deeply troubling.''

Welch said some Arab governments share the administration's concern
about Syria's ''destabilizing'' actions in Lebanon, but he declined to
identify with whom the United States was finding initial support.

''There are names in this report,'' Welch said, but he would not speak
about individuals. He said the report contained ''amazing evidence.''

''The report concludes there is probable cause to believe the
(assassination) decision could not have been taken without the
collusion of top Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials,'' Welch
said.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw accompanied Rice to her home state
to underscore their view that the United States and Britain are engaged
in a shared effort to promote democracy worldwide-- a quest often beset
by difficulties.

Rice was raised in Birmingham while that city was a focal point of the
civil rights struggle four decades years ago.

She will attend a ceremony on Saturday marking the murder of four young
black girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, one of the
defining moments of the civil rights movement.

The city's history, she said, ''is evocative of terrorism.'' She noted
that Birmingham was once called ''Bombingham.''

As a youth growing up in Blackburn, England, Straw said he ''remembered
with horror'' watching televised accounts of the brutality experienced
by American blacks during the civil rights conflict.

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