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Building Bridges THE MIDDLE EAST Syrian officials last week rejected Israeli President Moshe Katsav's invitation for his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, to visit Jerusalem for talks. But Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is a traveling man. He's met repeatedly with senior Tunisian, Bahraini, and Qatari officials, as well as King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Jordan's King Abdullah. Next week, Shalom will become the first Israeli Foreign Minister to visit Jordan since the onset of the intifadeh more than three years ago. But the trip Shalom wants most of all, to Damascus, remains out of reach. Senior...
...brink over Kashmir - met for warm talks in Islamabad and promised to keep talking. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared the commitment to talk a victory "for all those peace-loving people of the world." Syria and Turkey also seem to have gotten over long-standing territorial feuds: last week, Bashar Assad became the first Syrian leader ever to visit Turkey, and leaders appear more concerned about future business than about the disputed Hatay Province. Sudanese rebels have agreed to an oil wealth-sharing package after decades of civil war (see story), North Korea has opened up its nuclear facilities...
...months the U.S. has quietly insisted that Damascus give up the funds. Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in May and made that unpublicized demand. Top Syrian officials have been given the names of at least two suspect banks and provided with account numbers...
...other small towns along Israel's northern border have seen violent times before. During Israel's 18-year occupation of a strip of southern Lebanon, there were occasional rocket attacks. Now they are once again vulnerable as tension between Israel and Syria mounts. President Bashar Assad accused Israel of "trying to terrorize Syria and drag it and the region into other wars." Syrian officials denied that the training camp was active, but Israel says the base was run by Ahmed Jibril's Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and had been used by the Tehran...
...April 19th, Rashid Kokas pulled back a dirty white cloth from a skeleton believed to be his brother, Bashar. "No one says, no one knows," he cried, the universal chant of mourners denied information about loved ones disappeared into Saddam's Gulag. A follower of radical Shiite cleric Mohamed Al Sadr, Bashar was arrested on July 1, 2000 and accused of seditious religious activity. Rashid says that after bribing guards he learned his 30-year-old brother had been hung. Pressing for confirmation, Rashid was told to back off or face the same...