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Dennis Ross

OIL SALES TO IRAQ AND MORE DETAILS ON MATRIX-CHURCHILL CORP.
... III. PARTICIPANTS. US: The Secretary, Policy Planning Staff, Director Dennis Ross.
NEA DAS A. Peter Burleigh. S/P Staffer Aaron Miller. NEA Notetaker. ...
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Martin Indyk

Stalking Syria
... On the day American troops entered Baghdad in April this year, a former US ambassador
to Israel, Martin Indyk, declared: "We dominate the Middle East ... ...
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Aaron Miller

OIL SALES TO IRAQ AND MORE DETAILS ON MATRIX-CHURCHILL CORP.
... III. PARTICIPANTS. US: The Secretary, Policy Planning Staff, Director Dennis Ross.
NEA DAS A. Peter Burleigh. S/P Staffer Aaron Miller. NEA Notetaker. ...
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Michael Ledeen:

Neoconservatives push for a new world order
... Today, the institute still has hawks who were hawks before the neocon label became
hip; witness ex-Reagan Pentagon adviser Michael Ledeen, who, while puffing ...
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Pentagon Establishes New Force For Future Invasions
... Michael Ledeen, author of The War Against the Terror Masters who believes the US
must put more pressure on Syria and do more to support the reformist ...
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What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
... world in what the true believers see as America's image, with free enterprise and
Judeo-Christianity as core elements; here is Michael Ledeen, former Reagan ...
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Who's Who In The Coalition Provisional Authority
... country. She is the daughter of Michael Ledeen, the Iran-Contra luminary,
AEI scholar, and all-around capo in the neocon mafia. ...
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How can intelligent citizens support George W Bush?
... Enterprise Institute is really a right wing think tank, examine the influence of
the likes of Richard Cohen, Richard Perle, Michael Fumento and Michael Ledeen. ...
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Iraq 2003, Lebanon 1982
... Among the more outspoken, and thus more frank, proponents of regime change in both
Iran and Syria are Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute and ...
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Douglas Feith

Tenet Tells Senators, Wolfowitz Committee Gave White House Dubious ...
... called the Office of Special Plans, set up Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and other high ...
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What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
... Israel: The men driving Bush to war include long-time militant supporters of Israel,
such as Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith, who, along with ...
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Semitic is a Language Group, Not a Racial or Ethnic Group
... anti-semitic.” First of all, most of those Ashkenazim Jews who were born and raised
in America, such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Feith, are not even ...
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The US is starting a nuclear fight that will be hard to stop
... But such compromises may not suit the likes of Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas
Feith at the Pentagon, and other hardliners, including perhaps Bush himself ...
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The spies who pushed for war
... William Luti, a former navy officer and ex-aide to Mr Cheney, runs the day-to-day
operations, answering to Douglas Feith, a defence undersecretary and a former ...
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Richard Perle

Pentagon official: US may take action against Syria
... Pentagon official: US may take action against Syria 10/14/03: (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said Tuesday that the recent Israeli attack on ...
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On to Damascus?
... But did the British prime minister or US secretary of state clear their statements
with Richard Perle? ... But he must first tell Woolsey, Perle & Co. ...
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US gives Israel 3 years to quit occupied Arab land
... Former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a barometer of opinion within the
neo-conservatives at the heart of the White House, yesterday warned that Syria could ...
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Neoconservatives push for a new world order
... Neocon Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser, was an institute scholar; so was John
Bolton, who now has a key undersecretary post in the State Department. ...
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Stalking Syria
... In 1996 Washington defence guru Richard Perle co-authored a report to the Israeli
Government advising that it abandon talks with the Palestinians and ...
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What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
... Israel: The men driving Bush to war include long-time militant supporters of Israel,
such as Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith, who, along with ...
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Shannon Warport: "No More Business As Usual!"
... (Unfortunately, having proffered that mouthful, the judge ruled there was little
he could do.) Key Bush adviser Richard Perle admitted (boasted?) last month ...
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Dreamers and Idiots
... it wanted, support for the US position on Israel and Palestine, even rights over
Iraq's oil.8 Among the people they contacted was Richard Perle, the security ...
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Zionists On Our Payroll
... As a contributing factor, Richard Perle, overt Zionist and advisor to the Bush regieme
on the Defense Policy Board, has been representing the interests of ...
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Lewis Libby

Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying: The Widening Crusade
... policy of military strength and moral clarity." Among the 25 signatories to the
PNAC founding statement were Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of ...
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The spies who pushed for war
... posed by Saddam. When he was not there to make his influence felt, his
chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was. Such hands-on ...
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Elliott Abrams

Mr. Bush, It Is A Crime To Make False Statements To Congress
... Admiral John Poindexter and Elliot Abrams, learned about this false statements
law during the Iran Contra investigation. Abrams ...
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Weapons of Mass Destruction Not Iraq, but Anniston, Ala.
... look at the working population on Johnston Island, we have not found any instances
of workers having long-term health effects," said Army spokesman Mike Abrams ...
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Don't mess with Texas
... occupying army? But, of course, the invaded, squirming under the tread
of an Abrams tank, don't have the right to resist. Further ...
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Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying: The Widening Crusade
... Other signers whose names might ring familiar were Elliot Abrams, Gary
Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, and Norman Podhoretz. ...
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US pays up for fatal Iraq blunders
... Baghdad. In one case a couple were killed in front of their three young daughters
when an Abrams tank ran over and crushed their car. ...
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Bush and Blair - the betrayal
... Elliot Abrams, chief of Middle East affairs at the NSC, was their main man. ... Abrams
was rehabilitated when George Bush appointed him to the NSC. ...
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Masters of deceit
... Oliver Tambs, another conspirator, "then called Arias and confirmed what I had said
and suggested that Arias talk to Elliott (Abrams) for further confirmation. ...
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Is America sick?
... In his dissent to Abrams v United States, 250 US 616, 630 (1919), Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said 'the best test of truth is the power of the ...
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Richard Cheney

Cheney's Iraq Deceptions Leave NPR Speechless
... Cheney's Iraq Deceptions Leave NPR Speechless NEW YORK - January 23 (Fairness &
Accuracy In Reporting ) Vice President Dick Cheney rarely submits to one-on-one ...
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GAO: Cheney stifled energy probe
NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN. . Cheney stifled energy probe Congress' investigative
arm says vice president refused to turn over key documents. ...
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Dump Cheney Now!
NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN. Dump Cheney Now! By MAUREEN DOWD 01/29/04:
(New York Times) WASHINGTON — The awful part is that George ...
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Was war based on a lie? Ask Cheney
... Ask Cheney. ... Wilson's statements suggest that a good place for the Senate to start
looking for answers is in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. ...
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Details Given on Contract Halliburton Was Awarded
... treatment from the administration.". Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's
chief executive from 1995 until 2000. When he left ...
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Cherie [Blair] said Bush 'stole' power and tackled him on ...
... Stephens’s book also reveals the coolness shown by Vice- President Cheney in his
early meetings with Mr Blair and how Mr Cheney showed his hostility later on ...
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Protecting US Oil Interests in Iraq.
... Soldiers often know the score, even if Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush and of course the
Pentagon’s talking points dismissed any ties between Iraqi oil and their ...
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The Real Winners
... donations between 1999 and 2002 went to Republican candidates—the company also has
an intimate relationship with vice president Dick Cheney, a relationship ...
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Powell Warns Belgium As Iraqi's File War Crimes Charges Against US ...
... Seven Iraqi families filed a lawsuit Tuesday, March 18, in Belgium against former
US president George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Powell and retired US ...
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Neoconservatives push for a new world order
... And when Bush spoke in February at the institute (Lynne Cheney, the vice president's
wife, is a board member), he said that his team had borrowed 20 of its ...
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Rumsfeld: Victory close, but more will die
... Lenin, Ceaucescu in the pantheon of failed, brutal dictators, and the Iraqi people
are well on their way to freedom." Vice President Richard Cheney sounded an ...
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Bush: No Saddam Links To 9/11
... On Sunday, for example, Vice President Dick Cheney said that success in stabilizing
and democratizing Iraq would strike a major blow at the "the geographic ...
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Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
... Many of them are old friends and former employers of the Bush/ Cheney/Rumsfeld/
Rice cabal. Bush has already asked Congress for $75bn. ...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Ultimatums
... A good part of your Cabinet has been clamoring to finish off Saddam for years, Rumsfeld
and Cheney in particular - they wrote a letter to Clinton begging him ...
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Iraq report undermines Bush doctrine
... The evidence suggests there was no reconstituted nuclear programme, as alleged by
vice-president Dick Cheney in August 2002, when he said: "We now know that ...
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Standing Together
... Halliburton’s no-bid contracts are in the billions and Dick Cheney continues
to receive his million dollars in retirement each year. ...
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Mr. Bush, It Is A Crime To Make False Statements To Congress
... This may only apply to those within the Executive Branch that gained by the lies
the several appointees told, such as Halliburton Brown & Root and Mr. Cheney. ...
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When Thinking About Iraq: 15 Questions We Must Ask Ourselves
... Can it be that Bush is unwilling to sign on to the International Criminal Court
for fear that he, Rumdum, Wolfie, Cheney and others would be arrested (after ...
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Report Links Iraq Deals to Bush Donations
... oil industry. Halliburton was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney before
he resigned to run with Bush in 2000. Halliburton's top ...
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Inquiry Faults Intelligence on Iraq
... leadership not to allow Roberts to focus only on intelligence bureaucrats while
avoiding questions about whether Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary ...
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After the Invasion, the Hardball
... But most of the people who make this argument give you funny looks if you make similar
suggestions about Dick Cheney's, Jack Welch's and Rush Limbaugh's bank ...
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US officials knew in May Iraq possessed no WMD
... Bush has come under concerted pressure over the issue, with Democratic presidential
candidates accusing both him and Vice-President Dick Cheney of manipulating ...
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Tenet Tells Senators, Wolfowitz Committee Gave White House Dubious ...
... office of National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, where it found its way into
various public speeches given by Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy Defense ...
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The impeachable offense: Bush jeopardized troops' lives on false ...
... In doing so to win approval for an unprovoked and legally unjustifiable war, Bush
and his top officials -- including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell ...
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Moving Forward, One Step at a Time
... Graduation Day John Fernandez returns to West Point at the invitation of Vice President
Cheney. It is graduation day, and he is a guest of honor. ...
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Meet the Carlyle Group
NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN. . Meet the Carlyle Group Former World Leaders and
Washington Insiders Making Billions in the War on Terrorism. ...
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Dying for the Government
... Those who died in this war did not die for their country. They died for their
government. They died for Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld. ...
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White House 'distorted' Iraq threat
... The Carnegie assessment concluded: "There is no evidence of any Iraqi nuclear
programme", contrary to assertions by Dick Cheney, vice-president, and others in ...
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This War Not Against Terrorists
... "We are aggressively striking the terrorists in Iraq, defeating them there," Vice
President Dick Cheney said a week ago, "so we do not have to face them on the ...
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Why Are We In Iraq?
... Iraq. It was enriched doing business with Saddam when Cheney was running
the company. It ... destroy. And they owe it all to Cheney. While ...
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Bush and Blair - the betrayal
... But working in league with his allies in Cheney's office and at the defence department,
Abrams failed to prevent Blair from persuading Bush to issue the road ...
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The O'Neill Factor
... "Mr. O'Neill came into the Bush administration on the recommendation of three old
friends from the Ford years: Dick Cheney, Alan Greenspan and Donald Rumsfeld ...
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The Road to Coverup Is the Road to Ruin
... On March 16, the Sunday before the war began, in an interview with Tim Russert,
Vice President Cheney said that Iraqis want "to get rid of Saddam Hussein and ...
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Snuffed Candles
... So Wolfowitz knew, Rumsfeld knew, Colin Powell knew, Condi Rice knew, Dick Cheney
knew, even President Can't-Chew-a-Pretzel knew that launching a war of ...
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The West's battle for oil
... It was commissioned by James Baker, the former US Secretary of State under George
Bush Snr, and submitted to Vice-President Dick Cheney in April 2001 -- a full ...
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Sean Penn: Kilroy's Still Here
... We see Bechtel. We see Halliburton. We see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,
Powell, Rice, Perle, Ashcroft, Murdoch, many. We see no WMDs. ...
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Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying: The Widening Crusade
... "As long as George W. Bush is president of the United States," Vice President Cheney
told the friendly ... Dick Cheney was the first George Bush's Pentagon chief. ...
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Post-War Iraq Quiz
... Halliburton, formerly headed by and still paying Vice President Dick Cheney, which
was fined $2 million to resolve fraud claims in 2002, and which has given ...
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The Villain Is Ignorance
... same breath. Only last week, Vice President Dick Cheney was still refusing
to rule out a link between Iraq and Sept. 11, saying ...
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France and America, A Shared History
... week, even the Financial Times of London - pro-American, pro-business, conservative
to the bone - threw up its hands in despair at Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and ...
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Act Two: The 'victim' enters, stage right
... This in spite of the fact that the article names all the usual suspects, vice-president
Cheney (Halliburton), Rumsfeld (Bechtel), Casper Weinberger (former ...
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Bush Would Use Mini-nukes, Prof Warns
... empire as envisioned by the likes of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield, his underlings
Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, Vice President Dick Cheney and State ...
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Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
... Their fight finally overcame the directive by Vice President Dick Cheney to Congressman
Goss to "keep negotiating" and, in January 2003, the National ...
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The spies who pushed for war
... under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration,
the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney ...
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Surveillance State
... Department document—stamped “Confidential—Not for Distribution” on every page—showed
that it had already been sent to Vice President Cheney and House ...
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Time For The Buck To Stop
... Oh, My! By Sheila Samples Dick Cheney knows it's just a matter of time until the
buck stops. ... The New World Order guys rightly think Cheney is one of them. ...
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So This Is What War Looks Like? April 02, 2003
... Indeed something is wrong, and George W. Bush is to blame for it. Dick Cheney and
Donald Rumsfeld are to blame for it. Tony Blair is to blame for it. ...
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Treating the symptoms instead of the cause
... plans of Israel's political generals have now become intertwined into the views
of US neo-conservatives such as Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary ...
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Ariel Sharon

US Leans On Belgians to Spare Sharon From Trial
. US Leans On Belgians to Spare Sharon From Trial. ... On that basis, Mohamed was one
of the survivors who brought the legal case against Sharon to Brussels. ...
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A ‘Greater Israel’ In The Making: Experts
... his fears with comments from another professor from Indonesia; Dr Gatut Priyowidodo
Msi, who told Antara news agency that he feared Ariel Sharon, the Israeli ...
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Gush Shalom Press Release / 18.12.03
NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN. . Sharon's Speech: Tissue of Lies and Half-Truths His
"Plan" - Recipe for War and Annexation Gush Shalom Press Release / 18.12.03. ...
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Powell Warns Belgium As Iraqi's File War Crimes Charges Against US ...
... office, but some 30 current of former political leaders are facing legal action
under the legislation, including Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Cuban ...
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Israel Is Inciting Washington To Take On Syria
... Ariel Sharon would also like to see disappear the threat in southern Lebanon represented
by Hezbollah, the armed Lebanese Shi'ite movement "sponsored" by Syria ...
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US sanctions on Syria 'could come soon'
... Eliot Engel, a key sponsor of the bill, said that he had received strong support
for the legislation from Ariel Sharon after meeting the Israeli Prime Minister ...
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