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...Syria was among Iraq's principal trading partners, buying more than $1 billion worth of cheap oil annually in violation of U.N. sanctions. Since the war, U.S.-Syrian relations have deteriorated sharply. A congressional bill, which President Bush has signaled he won't veto, accuses Syria of sponsoring terrorism, seeking weapons of mass destruction and occupying Lebanon. It was approved by a House committee last week, three days after Israel attacked an alleged Palestinian terrorist camp outside Damascus--an act Bush, notably, did not condemn. Syria may also be courting economic isolation: its banks could face Bush-imposed sanctions under...
...tell TIME that Ankara wants to station some troops between Baghdad and the northern Kurdish stronghold of Suleimaniyah, a move that would upset Iraqi Kurds. Aware of the risk of violence such a move would pose, U.S. commanders are pushing to deploy the Turks elsewhere, between Baghdad and the Syrian border to the west. A senior Turkish official says Ankara is considering opening a new border post closer to the Syrian border where the Turkomans--a minority friendly to Ankara's interests--are prevalent, and where, they hope, Turkish troops will be able to enter Iraq safely. Winning the vote...
...between Israel and Syria. Funny that the “truce” was not ended by the Hezbollah mortar and rocket attacks on northern Israel that have persisted over that 30-year period. Hezbollah has always been based in Syria and in fact receives funding from the Syrian government. But despite this 30-year history of deadly terrorist incursions into northern Israel by a group supported by Syria, the Staff identifies Israel as violating the supposed truce that only it had been upholding after an isolated incident...
...Crimson’s Oct. 15 editorial, “Nations are Not Terrorists,” is particularly disturbing in its critique of the Israeli air-strike on a Syrian-based terrorist training camp...
These very same terrorist groups are responsible for the hundreds of deaths of innocent men, women, children and infants in Israel. Do these Syrian-supported terrorist actions constitute the “30-year [Syrian-Israeli] truce” that the Crimson editorial speaks...