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...lawyers, and the U.S. both required and monitored assurances that countries would treat their prisoners in accordance with international human rights norms - for example, that they would not be abused or tortured. President Bush says the U.S. does not condone torture. But in one 2002 case, Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was intercepted while changing planes in New York City and shipped via Jordan to Syria. He was held for a year, and says he was beaten. Before 2001, it would have been inconceivable for the U.S. to send anyone to a country with Syria's long record...
Pentagon officials routinely characterize anti-insurgent operations around Iraq as great victories. But just as Operation Steel Curtain, targeting insurgents in towns near the Syrian border, wound down, fighters loyal to al-Qaeda's top man in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, popped up in Ramadi. The insurgents' ability to preserve and regenerate their forces is a hallmark of the war. The official American tally for the Nov. 17 battle in Ramadi: 33 insurgents killed, 1 Marine slightly wounded. But Blue Platoon knows it has not delivered a knockout punch...
...MAKE ANY SPECIFIC REQUESTS? We put forward the idea that Iraq should buy American weapons. It will go a long way toward raising the morale of Iraqi troops and giving them something serious to work with. We discussed Syria and how we stop infiltration from Syria by getting the Syrian government to act responsibly...
...nations. She wants people on the street to know, says an aide, that the U.S. isn?t trying to punish the entire nation for the transgressions of the leadership. That?s why Rice, speaking at an international conclave on democracy in Bahrain Saturday, departed from her usual rhetoric about Syrian support of terrorism to accuse the regime of abusing its own people. She cited Syria?s recent arrest of dissident Kamal Labwani. Afterwards, she told associates, she was deeply moved when a Syrian human rights activist came up to her, kissed her cheek and said, ?Thank you for not forgetting...
...instance, on Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Rice was asked about the Syrian leader Bashar Assad?s torrent of criticism of the UN investigation into the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. ?What I?ve seen is, so far, a lot of criticism of the process and a lot of criticism of the investigation,? Rice asserted. ?That just isn?t going to - it?s not going...