Bloodbaathist Update.

From Best of the Web Today comes this story of real real politic, Syrian Style.

You've gotta be major league guilty to murder a guy so he won't talk to the U. freakin' N.

'Pardon, Suicide'

Syria, Iraq's neighbor, is still ruled by Baathists, who are brutal and oppressive but do provide some occasional dark comedy. United Press International reports:

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa erred twice in his eulogy of Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan calling the suicide an "assassination," said an-Nahar [a Lebanese newspaper].

The public attorney who superintended an autopsy made the same mistake during a televised news conference. . . .

Sharaa held the Lebanese media and leakages by the U.N. commission responsible for Kanaan's "assassination" in a televised statement at his funeral on Thursday. He did not correct the first "slip of the tongue." Later in the statement Sharaa again called Kanaan's death an "assassination" with an instant correction of "pardon, suicide."