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Coming a day after the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and following another videotaped al-Qaeda vow to stage new attacks, Tuesday morning's foiled terrorist raid on the American embassy in Damascus is certainly cause for U.S. concern. A Syrian interrogation of one surviving attacker will seek to determine whether the incident was in fact the work of al-Qaeda or that of other individuals seeking to add to the carnage. Anti-American feelings are high throughout the Middle East, which in recent months has been gripped not only by the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...than the U.S. That's because as it may have been intended as a riposte to Washington, the raid was a bold challenge to the rule of President Bashar Assad. The attack was carried out by as many as four Islamic militants shouting Muslim slogans in the heart of Damascus's diplomatic quarter not far from Assad's own residence - in short, one of the most heavily protected neighborhoods in Syria, if not the Middle East. The attackers failed to kill any American diplomats, and Syrian security guards apparently managed to slay three of the assailants. But that doesn...
...help down the line, but the attention that Princeton's professors give to their undergraduates is the school's most appealing trait. And I hope that Kirn reported the cheating he saw to the Honor Committee, part of Princeton's honor system since 1893. BRYAN COCKRELL PRINCETON '08 Damascus...
...time. Israeli and Syrian forces were facing off over the Bekaa region - the area near Syria that Israel attacked earlier this week, including bombings on the town of Baalbek. There were fears that Nesher's capture would touch off a large-scale confrontation. He was brought to Damascus where he says he underwent two months of interrogation and torture. He was eventually released as a part of an exchange for more than 300 Syrian prisoners held in Israel. He says his experience in captivity made him a better man, and he explains how far Israel will...
...thought the Lebanese would protect us, but the government had no influence on the warriors in the field. We were taken to a prison in the middle of Damascus. The prison, run by the secret police force, was built underground to protect it from Israeli air force attacks...