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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (15960)	3/28/2003 4:28:00 PM
From: Softechie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Iraq Min Denies Claims Syria Supplying Military Equipment 28 Mar 15:22 BEIRUT (AP)--Iraq's information minister on Friday denied U.S. claims that Syria was sending military equipment to Baghdad, calling the claims "baseless" and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "ridiculous." "These accusations against brotherly Syria are of course baseless," Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said in an interview with Lebanon's Al-Hayat LBC satellite channel. "He (Rumsfeld) makes such lies on a daily basis." At a Pentagon briefing Friday, Rumsfeld warned Syria to stop sending military equipment to Iraqi forces, saying such shipments have included night-vision goggles. "We consider such trafficking as hostile acts and will hold the Syrian government accountable for such shipments," Rumsfeld said. A spokeswoman for Syria's Foreign Ministry rejected Rumsfeld's statement as "unfounded and irresponsible." Speaking by telephone from Damascus to Britain's Channel 4 television news, spokeswoman Bouthaine Shaban said: "He (Rumsfeld) only brings problems for his country and humanity at large. It is an absolutely unfounded, irresponsible statement, just like his statements that brought his country and the allied countries into a terrible war, unnecessary war on Iraq." Syrian President Bashar Assad has described the military action against Iraq as "clear occupation and a flagrant aggression against a United Nations member state." Syria is the only Arab country currently on the U.N. Security Council. Speaking to the Lebanese satellite channel from Baghdad, al-Sahhaf said: "This man (Rumsfeld) is the most despicable creature. Rumsfeld is ridiculous. He is a strange case." "I am sorry for talking in this language. But with criminals who are killing the sons of our people with bombs, insults are not enough," al-Sahhaf said. (END) Dow Jones Newswires 03-28-03 1522ET