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Bush warns Syria over Lebanon, Iraq

REUTERS, Washington
President George W. Bush declined to comment on the suicide on Wednesday of a Syrian government minister who had been questioned by a UN probe about the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister, but said Syria is still too involved in Lebanon.
Bush also repeated US warnings that Syria must stop foreign fighters from crossing its border into Iraq.
Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan killed himself in his office just three weeks after he was questioned by a UN team investigating the assassination in February of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
The UN team, led by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, is
expected to submit its report on October 21.
"I don't want to prejudge the report that's coming out -- the Mehlis report," Bush told reporters when asked about Kanaan's death and its implications for the investigation into Hariri's assassination.
But he added, "It's one thing to have been asked to remove troops and all intelligence services. Now the world wants for -- expects -- Syria to honour the democracy in the country of Lebanon."
Shortly before news of Kanaan's suicide broke, President Bashar al-Assad told CNN Syria was not involved in Hariri's death and that he could never have ordered it.
If the UN probe concludes Syrians were involved, those people would be regarded as traitors who
would be charged with treason and face either an international court or the Syrian judicial process, CNN quoted Assad as saying.
US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said it would be up to Syrian officials to make assessments about the circumstances of Kanaan's death.
"We don't know what Mr. Mehlis' findings are or what his conclusions, which have not yet been written, will be," Ereli told a briefing.
"So I wouldn't make, frankly, any connections between this event and the Mehlis report and what the Mehlis report might say, other than to note that Mr. Kanaan was a central figure in Syria's occupation of Lebanon for many years."
Bush's remarks, during a meeting with visiting Polish President
Aleksander Kwasniewski, followed warnings to Syria by Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador to Baghdad, who said last month "patience is running out with Syria" for failing to stop foreign fighters from crossing into Iraq.
"We expect Syria to do everything in her power to shut down the transhipment of suiciders and killers into Iraq," Bush said. "We expect Syria to be a good neighbour to Iraq. We expect Syria not to agitate killers in the Palestinian territories."
Syria has blamed the United States for the infiltration of insurgents into Iraq, saying Washington failed to secure the border or deliver technical help that it had promised.