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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
06DAMASCUS4974	2006-10-17 12:55	2011-08-24 01:00	UNCLASSIFIED	Embassy Damascus

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RUEHAM/AMEMBASSY AMMAN 6319
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INFO RUEHNC/AMEMBASSY NICOSIA 7051

UNCLAS DAMASCUS 004974 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR PA, NEA/ARN, INR/IC/CD, INR/S:STHIBEAULT AND 
JMCCARTER, VOA NEWS CA, NEA/PPD:CBOURGEOIS, DBENZE AND AFERNANDEZ, 
IIP/G/NEA-SA RWINCHESTER 
WHITE HOUSE FOR NSC 
CENTCOM FOR CCPA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
SUBJECT: Damascus Media Reaction: Post-war Maneuvering, MEPP, 
Palestinian developments,  (10/13 -10/16) 
¶1.  Summary:  The Syrian press covered (October 13 - 16) the 
following topics: 
 
 
President Assad met with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel 
Moratinos on Sunday.  Papers quoted Moratinos as saying that "Syria 
is part of the solution rather than the problem." 
 
President Assad held an Iftar on Sunday at which he gave a speech to 
Syrian clerics, calling on them to confront the distortion which 
Islam is encountering, through dialogue and wisdom. 
 
In a meeting with the head of the Political Department of the 
Palestinian Liberation Organization, Farouq Qadoumi, President Assad 
stressed the importance of Palestinian national unity and the 
continuation of inter-Palestinian dialogue to achieve the ultimate 
goals of the Palestinian people, mainly ending the Israeli 
occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state with 
Jerusalem as its capital. 
 
President Assad also met with Egypt's Intelligence Chief, Omar 
Suleiman, who delivered a letter from Mubarak dealing with 
"bilateral relations and developments in the region." 
 
Papers also covered a meeting between the Palestinian Minister of 
Interior and his Syrian counterpart, who renewed Syria's support for 
Palestinian national unity. 
 
 
End of summary. 
 
¶2.  Selected Headlines: 
President Assad to clerics:  The responsibilities which Syria holds 
is an honor for her (government-owned Tishreen, October 16, 2006) 
 
President Assad reviews with Moratinos the situation in the region, 
Syrian-Spanish relations and the European vision regarding launching 
the peace process (government-owned Tishreen, October 15, 2006) 
 
President Assad receives a letter from President Mubarak about 
bilateral relations (government-owned Tishreen, October 16, 2006) 
 
Moratinos:  Syria is part of the solution;  no peace without her 
(government-owned al-Baath, October 16, 2006) 
 
President Assad reiterates to Qadoumi the importance of resuming 
dialogue and enhancing Palestinian national unity (government-owned 
Tishreen, October 16, 2006) 
 
¶3.  Editorial Block Quotes: 
 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
"Bush's Comma" 
 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
"So long as the US Administration uses this discourse, and so long 
as President Bush considers what is going on now in Iraq as a mere 
comma in Iraqi history, the series of setbacks and curses shall 
haunt the current US Administration until its last day in office, 
and shall hit its members with something worse than Gulf War Disease 
after they leave office. 
 
"How can a human being believe...that the lives of 650,000 Iraqis 
are a mere comma, when Iraqi history is written.  Mr. President, 
when, then, is life valuable? 
 
"The problem of President Bush's Administration, with itself and its 
people, is that it does not want to admit the faults that it has 
committed and is planning to commit in the Arab region, especially 
regarding Iraqis and Palestinians.... Blair's Government, a US ally, 
has started to learn from what has happened and is preparing itself 
to correct its mistakes, as its Military Chief said a couple of days 
ago.  Still, this change will not save Blair's government from 
setbacks and curses, which will continue to follow it until its last 
minute." 
 
Corbin

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