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Meanwhile Picco embarked on his secret mission. On several occasions he traveled with Syrian secret police to the border with Lebanon, where he was met by intermediaries waiting in a black Mercedes. Then he was driven -- alone, with his head covered by a cloth bag -- into the Bekaa Valley, in the eastern portion of Lebanon. Some of his meetings with Shi'ite operatives were held in the village of Nabisheet, where he may have spoken to some of the hostages. When asked about that possibility, Picco crisply responds, "Next question...
...president and his advisers wouldn't have to live in the Golan valley, in constant fear of a Syrian artillery attack from above. The Israelis are the ones who must live with the consequences of the negotiations...
...Citizens," Levy said of the Egyptian and Israeli populations in 1979, "gradually got the true sense that talks were going on. Egypt, like the other Arab states, does not allow freedom of the press. Seeing the motorcade pass through your village may be the only way a Syrian, Jordanian, or Lebanese knows that peace might exist with the Jewish neighbor...
...indictment of Libya in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland completely ignored significant evidence of Syrian involvement. Not only was Syria let off the hook, but Bush complained that Syria was getting a "bum rap" due to suspicion that it was involved in the mass murder...
...pressure is being placed on Syrian leader Hafez el-Assad, and why Bush wants the Golan to be in Assad's hands is a mystery. Is Assad going to plant Dutch tulips on the mountain's rolling slopes or would it be more along the lines of the 24 North Korean scud missiles Syria purchased in the wake of last year's Gulf...