Word: damascus
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...while openly defying the Bush Administration on Lebanon and technically still at war with Israel, which occupies Syrian territory on the Golan Heights. But if truly democratic elections were held in both places today, the smart money would be on the Muslim Brotherhood to win in both Cairo and Damascus...
...What she knows and hasn't said is that the PIJ is controlled by Iran. While it's important, essential, to get the Syrians to shut down the PIJ office in Damascus, it's also important to be clear about what the source of the problem is. From the mid-1990s, Iran has been determined to use PIJ terrorist operation to disrupt the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and there is a very clear of pattern of PIJ activities during the intifada. Whenever [the region] calmed down, it was the PIJ that launched terrorist attacks, because the Iranians have a very...
...Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?General Command - with funding, safehaven, training, and weapons" and adds "The Syrian Government in 2003 continued to provide political and material support to Palestinian rejectionist groups [operating] from Syria, although they have lowered their public profiles since May, when Damascus announced that the groups had voluntarily closed their offices...
...Israelis. Abbas didn?t accuse Hizballah directly, but said ?there is a third party that is interested in sabotaging this period of quiet.? Israeli politicians have thus far restricted themselves to urging the Palestinians to track down those responsible. (Late Saturday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz accused Syria of involvement; Damascus denied the charge.) If that restraint holds, perhaps the spirit of co-operation still has a chance to survive...
...number of suspects - all from Chechnya - have been detained since September, but Ibragimov is the first to be indicted. Backward, March SYRIA Officials announced the planned redeployment of some of the 14,000 Syrian troops stationed in Lebanon to positions closer to the Syrian border. International pressure on Damascus to withdraw its military forces from Lebanon has increased since the Feb. 14 car bomb in Beirut that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and which the Lebanese opposition has blamed on Syria; Damascus denies involvement. A Fresh Start SOMALIA Hundreds of cheering Somalis in the northern town of Jowhar...