U.S.:
Terrorists in Syria Bombed Tel Aviv Updated 8:16 PM ET March 1, 2005
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pr...88ih7qo0&src=apBy JENNIFER LOVEN and ANNE GEARAN
WASHINGTON (AP) -
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."
President Bush made a similar point during a White House meeting with congressional leaders, participants said,
and so did Rice....
[ratcheting up the rhetoric for war - how did they get this evidence? how can we believe anything they say?]