U.S. recalls ambassador from Syria

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U.S. recalls ambassador from Syria
Move highlights suspicion of Damascus' role in deadly Beirut blast

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The United States recalled its ambassador to Syria on Tuesday, expressing "profound outrage" amid growing suspicion that Damascus was involved in a massive bombing in Lebanon a day earlier that killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Condemnation and expressions of grief echoed throughout the Arab world and beyond, while in southern Lebanon an angry mob attacked Syrian workers.

The bombing and its aftermath raised fears that Lebanon might revert to the political violence of the 1970s and '80s, and the U.S. Embassy in Beirut warned Americans in the Lebanese capital to exercise extreme caution.

Before his assassination, Hariri had positioned himself in opposition to a faction more solidly backed by Syria, which maintains 15,000 troops here since the civil war ended in 1990 and has the final say in internal Lebanese politics.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6967302/

Well, it looks like the US thinks Syria was behind it.
 
"Well, it looks like the US thinks Syria was behind it."

And why should anyone believe a word the US administration says on alleged Syrian involvement or anything else to do with global threats?
That`s the question that is screaming to be asked.
 
Deja Vu....
Bomb wounds Lebanese minister who resigned over Syrian domination - Friday October 01, 2004

BEIRUT (AFP)

A Lebanese minister who resigned in a dispute over Syria's domination of the country was wounded in a Beirut car bombing. Outgoing Economy and Trade Minister Marwan Hamadeh's bodyguard was killed and his driver wounded in the blast, which occurred at 9:05 am (0605 GMT) near his home on the Mediterranean seafront of the Lebanese capital.

Hamadeh, a close advisor to Druze leader Walid Jumblatt who has been one of the most vocal opponents of continued Syrian political and security interference in Lebanon, "suffered light shrapnel wounds to the face, the right eyelid and the hands," said a doctor at the American University Hospital.
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Guess who else was a vocal opponent of continued Syrian political and security interference in Lebanon?......former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
 
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