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Saudi report: Terror cell had Syria base (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 22:33:27 GMT

One of seven recently exposed Saudi terrorist cells used Syria as a base for coordinating with al-Qaida in Iraq and held training camps in the desert of neighboring Yemen, a newspaper owned by Saudi Arabia's royal family said Tuesday.


Assad: U.S.-Syria talks no breakthrough (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Mon, 07 May 2007 19:50:21 GMT

President Bashar Assad said Monday that last week's talks between Syria's foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were not a "breakthrough," instead accusing the Bush administration of making Damascus a scapegoat for the failures in Iraq.


ISRAEL: U.N. Officer Unworried About Syria Yaakov Katz and Sheera Claire Frenkel (Jewish.com)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 13:15:31 GMT

Jilke, who heads the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), responsible for maintaining the cease-fire on the Syrian-Israeli border, dismissed Israeli claims of an unprecedented military buildup within Syria.


Syria-US talks ”frustrate” Iran (Al Bawaba)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 15:08:26 GMT

Relations between Washington and Damascus have been strained further since 2003 as Syria, a close ally of Iran, strongly objected the U.S. invasion of Iraq and blamed the US for turbulence in the country.


Syria Says "US Obsessed" With Military Solution In Iraq (Nasdaq)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 05:31:51 GMT

(RTTNews) - Monday, Syria's ambassador to the United States said that the US's obsessing for a military solution for Iraq rather than diplomacy might just prove too late for the Washington administration to salvage the fast deteriorating situation in the war ravaged country.


Syria truly interested in Israel talks (UPI)
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Mon, 07 May 2007 17:38:04 GMT

The head of Israel's National Security Council said Monday Syria is legitimately interested in talking to Israel. "Syria's call for dialogue with Israel is authentic," NSC Chairman Ilan Mizrahi told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ha


SYRIA REVISES MILITARY DRAFT (Middle East Newsline)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 06:53:18 GMT

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Syria has revised regulations for compulsive military service. Officials said President Bashar Assad has approved measures that revise military service, which remains at two years. They said the decree would provide exemptions as well as increase monitoring of eligible conscripts.


Assad says Bush is using Syria as scapegoat for failures in Iraq (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 08:43:14 GMT

DAMASCUS, Syria - President Bashar Assad said yesterday that last week's talks between Syria's foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were not a "breakthrough," instead accusing the Bush administration of making Damascus a scapegoat for the failures in Iraq.


The Development of the Refinery Project in Syria (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT

North West Oil Group Inc., together with the JSC "North-West Oil Group", developed and presented for the consideration of the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources of Syria the technical and economic feasibility study for the preparation of the contract for the construction of the refinery without tender.


Syria's new parliament re-elects Abrash as speaker (People's Daily)
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Tue, 08 May 2007 02:06:54 GMT

Syria's new parliament opened its first session on Monday following a parliamentary election in April and re-elected Mahmoud al-Abrash as the speaker.