The current high priority status Syria is getting from the US is interesting. It suggests a new front for Us policing of the Middle east. Essentially, they would like to influence as much of this Arab controlled areas as is legitimately (but illegally)achievable. Syria, and then Iran. Iran and Isreal as early as 2004 were threatening pre-emptive strikes on one another.
Bush Pushes U.N. to Move Swiftly on Syria Report
Published: October 22, 2005
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 - President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Friday for urgent Security Council action in response to a United Nations report implicating high ranking members of the Syrian government in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.
Noting that "the report strongly suggests that the politically motivated assassination could not have taken place without Syrian involvement," Mr. Bush, in Simi Valley, Calif., said the world must "respond accordingly."
He said he had spoken to Ms. Rice about the need for prompt United Nations action on the report, which he described as "deeply disturbing."
The report, made public Thursday, called the Feb. 14 killing of Mr. Hariri a "terrorist act" and said it was carefully planned over many months by Syrian leaders with the complicity of Lebanese security forces. The main suspect has been identified by a diplomat with intimate knowledge of the inquiry as the powerful chief of Syria's military intelligence, the brother-in-law of Syria's president.
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