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03/01/2005:
"U.S.: Terrorists in Syria Bombed Tel Aviv"
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Tuesday blamed terrorists based in Syria for last week's deadly suicide attack in Israel and called for an immediate end to Syrian military and political domination over neighboring Lebanon.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice applied the strongest American pressure on the Syrians to date, saying at an international conference in London that they were "out of step" in the Middle East and there was growing international resolve against them.
In Washington, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said, "We do have firm evidence that the bombing in Tel Aviv was not only authorized by Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus, but that Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus participated in the planning."
Full Article: news.yanoo.com
In the last few days Syria has been blamed for practically every bad thing in the region,and is scrambling to get out of the way before the hammer falls. All this US muscle-flexing, do they smell blood or what? What is going on?
