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...Pictures could leave the impression of a kind of relationship that at this point doesn't exist," a senior Administration hand says of McCormack's extraordinary decree. The Syrians "typically use those sorts of events to try to say, oh, look, no problem." Damascus, he added, had used pictures of President Bashar Assad meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to suggest, at least to casual viewers throughout the Muslim world, that relations between the U.S. and Syria were normalizing...
...People who are going to the jihad in Iraq are from as far away as Morocco, and their favorite transit point is the Damascus airport," says a senior U.S. official. Syrian officials counter that the U.S. can't close its own borders with Mexico and Canada. But Rice and her team pointed out that the Syrian government is one of the few that doesn't demand that visitors from other Arab nations obtain visas to enter their territory. Moreover, says a U.S. official, "We're not asking them to do us any favors. We believe they understand that being...
Bringing down the Nixon White House couldn't have been easy. But that's the way it looked to a group of a group of Syrian and Palestinian writers whom I've been training to be journalists here in Damascus, when I recently held a screening of All the President's Men - the Watergate movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. By secretive Syrian standards, the conditions under which the crusading journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein worked seem impossibly ideal. The fact that there was a direct phone number to the White House switchboard filled my students with...
...interesting because three of our colleagues, who are all Republicans, were in Syria yesterday, and I didn't hear the White House speaking out about that.' NANCY PELOSI, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, shrugging off Bush Administration criticism of her trip to Damascus, Syria, on April 3, during which she hoped to revive U.S. relations with the country. Republican Representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt also met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on April...
NANCY PELOSI, Speaker of the House, shrugging off Bush Administration criticism of her trip to Damascus, Syria, on April 4, during which she hoped to revive U.S. relations with the country; Republican Representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt also met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on April...