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Even before the hit on Hariri, U.S. patience with Damascus was dwindling. Syria's support for militant groups that oppose Israel, as well as its close alliance with Iran, has long been an irritant to Washington. But reports of Syrian meddling in Iraq have provoked the most rage. For a time, U.S. diplomats thought they were making headway in persuading Damascus to crack down on the money and manpower the Bush Administration charges is flowing across Syria's border to insurgents in Iraq. But a Pentagon official told TIME that the U.S. believes Syrian military officers went to Fallujah...
...that the two key Sunni candidates, President Yawer and former foreign minister Adnan Pachachi between them took less than 2 percent of the total vote. The extent of the Sunni stay-away underscores the danger of Sunni alienation entrenching a social base for the insurgency that has continued to rage since election day, and Jaafari and other Shiite leaders are concerned to draw away support from the more extreme element by seeking common ground with Sunni nationalists. That may require drawing in some of the leaders who boycotted the election, rather than relying only on those Sunnis...
...recruited by the two Moroccan and three Tunisian defendants planned to attack civilians, Forleo ruled that their actions hadn't "exceeded guerrilla activity" - even though she conceded that the men had signed up militants to go to Iraq. They were convicted of immigration offenses. The terror judgment sparked "rage and disbelief" from Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, who termed the verdict "a shameless distortion of reality before the eyes of the entire world." Prosecutors plan to appeal the decision. Since existing rules don't always allow officials to prevent local radicals from getting to Iraq - or causing mayhem in Europe...
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Nonetheless, Bush would have us believe that sensitivity and tact are now all the rage at the White House. Condoleeza Rice told the senators at her recent confirmation hearings that “the time for diplomacy is now.” Apparently 2001, when Bush abandoned the Kyoto Protocol instead of working with other nations to improve it, was not a good time for diplomacy. Nor was it the time for diplomacy, evidently, when Bush enraged the world community by pulling the U.S. out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Then there was March 2003, when Bush abruptly decided...