http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._st_pe/us_syria

US Withdraws Ambassador From Syria

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...n_go_co/kerry_4

Senator Kerry touts His Military Proposals

That's all fine and good of Kerry to say. Does that mean the two commanders-in chief are going to increase military personnel AND budget?

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Reflecting on the presidential campaign, Kerry said he had proposed "a far more effective way to make America safer." And, he said, he was "way ahead of the curve" on several areas — like the position of an intelligence chief, the creation of the commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and an increase in the military death gratuity — while "the president dragged his feet."


"Americans accepted that I could be the commander in chief," Kerry said. "What they were unwilling to do was shift commanders in midstream."

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The creation of the commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks? I thought there WAS a commission or investigation!

U.S. Withdraws Ambassador From Syria :

Before departing, U.S. Ambassador Margaret Scobey delivered a stern note, called a demarche in diplomatic parlance, to the Syrian government, said an official who discussed the situation only on grounds of anonymity.
http://207.44.245.159/article8072.htm

Robert Fisk: The killing of 'Mr Lebanon':

This was a bomb that took a long time to construct, a long time to plan. Parked outside the wall of an empty hotel, few would have looked at the car or noticed that it was weighed down on its axles by the weight of explosives, as it must have been.
http://207.44.245.159/article8068.htm


Robert Fisk Interview : Car bomb kills former Lebanese prime minister:

Robert Fisk is a journalist for the Independent newspaper based in Beirut. He knew Rafik Hariri and was one of the first people to get to the site of the attack. Real Audio
http://207.44.245.159/article8065.htm

U.S. Recalls Its Envoy in Syria, Linking Nation to Beirut
Blast
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN and HASSAN M. FATTAH
The Bush administration recalled its ambassador to Syria to
protest what it sees as Syria's link to the murder of the
former prime minister of Lebanon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/internat...lebanon.html?th

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U.S. Recalls Ambassador to Syria as Suspicions Over Bombing Grow
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By Megan K. Stack and Rania Abouzeid
Special to The Times

February 16 2005

DAMASCUS, Syria — The U.S. ambassador to Syria was called back to Washington on Tuesday as anger swelled against Damascus after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,2210147.story