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The Associated Press
Monday, October 27, 2008
WASHINGTON: Bold U.S. raids into Pakistan and Syria show the stark choice the Bush administration is putting to both friends and adversaries in its final weeks: Clamp down on militants and terrorists or we’ll do it for you.
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Agence France-Presse
Published: Monday October 27, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States mounted a rare cross-border raid into Syria to kill the head of a smuggling network feeding arms and foreign fighters to Iraq, a US official said Monday, signaling a more aggressive approach to insurgent sanctuaries.
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By ROBERT F. WORTH and ERIC LIPTON
BEIRUT, Lebanon — For years, the Lebanese military was ridiculed as the least effective armed group in a country that was full of them. After the army splintered during the 15-year civil war, its arsenal slowly rotted into a museum of obsolete tanks and grounded aircraft.
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DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria’s state-run television and witnesses say U.S. military helicopters have attacked an area along the country’s border with Iraq, causing casualties.
The report quoted unnamed Syrian officials and said the area is near the Syrian border town of Abu Kamal. It gave no other details on Sunday’s attack.
Local residents told The Associated [...]
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AFP
Published: Tuesday October 21, 2008
Canadian officials played an “indirect” role in the wrongful jailing and torture of three Canadian nationals in Syria and Egypt, an inquiry said Tuesday.
The probe, led by retired Supreme Court judge Frank Iacobucci, began in March behind closed doors to determine if the trio was mistreated abroad and whether Canadian authorities [...]
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Published: Oct. 17, 2008 at 11:42 AM
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) — The United States warned Syria not to take military action against Lebanon after Syria’s president accused Beirut of financing terrorists targeting Syria.
“A clear message has been delivered to Damascus stating that Washington will not tolerate a Syrian military intervention in Lebanon,” U.S. Secretary of [...]
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At a closed door meeting in Vienna today, UN International Atomic Energy Agency director general Mohamed ElBaradei revealed that the reason the group’s investigation into whether Syria was pursuing a nuclear program has been delayed is that its main Syrian contact has turned up assassinated.
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‘Ordinary maneuver’ tied to ’smuggling’ or ‘internal affairs’
By Nicholas Kimbrell
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
BEIRUT: Thousands of Syrian troops have amassed along the Lebanese border in what Damascus says is an effort to combat smuggling, Lebanese military sources said on Monday, stoking speculation and concern in Lebanon. A source in the Lebanese Army confirmed that [...]
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August 21st, 2008
Via: MINA:
The Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready to head from Murmansk towards the Mediterranean and the Syrian port of Tartus. The mission comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open for a Russian base in the area. The “Admiral Kuznetsov”, part of the Northern Fleet and Russia’s only aircraft [...]
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to be keeping his options open
Kevin O’Flynn in Moscow and James Hider, Middle East Correspondent
Syria raised the prospect yesterday of having Russian missiles on its soil, sparking fears of a new Cold War in the Middle East. President Assad said as he arrived in Moscow to clinch a series of [...]
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