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...Diplomatically, it has not been a good week for Syria. President George W. Bush, who tours the Middle East this week (Syria is not on his agenda), said on Friday that there needs to be a "clear message to the Syrians... that you will continue to be isolated, you will continue to be viewed as a nation that is thwarting the will of the Lebanese people." Bush's comments, coming days after he said that his "patience had run out" with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has further dampened speculation of a U.S. re-engagement with Syria following Damascus...
...close friend of Chirac, was instrumental in building France's relations with Syria, hoping in exchange that Damascus would ease its tight grip on Lebanon. That was not to be, however, and by 2004 Chirac had lost patience with Damascus and joined the U.S. in demanding a withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. After Hariri was assassinated three years ago in a truck bomb explosion - for which Damascus is widely accused - French-Syrian relations went into the deep freeze...
...Similarly, Sarkozy's efforts to engage Syria appear to have foundered, and, in a calculated swipe at the Syrian regime, he immediately followed his announcement of severed contacts with a promise to release funds for the international tribunal being established in the Netherlands to judge the accused killers of Hariri...
...grown bitterly accustomed to assassinations and bombings over the past four years. He is the ninth prominent Lebanese to have been killed since February 2005, when Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister, died in a truck bomb explosion. A United Nations investigation into the Hariri murder suggested that Syrian officials were involved...
...Anti-Syrian politicians, however, were quick to blame Damascus, accusing the Syrian regime of seeking to cause instability in Lebanon. "I point an accusing finger directly at the Syrian regime as the scheme has been carried out since three years until today with no one to deter this regime," said Antoine Andraous, a member of the March 14 bloc...