Neocon pressure for regime change in Damascus is building up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1424833,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/02/20/936484.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

The history and consequence of imperial interventions in Syria and Lebanon...

http://207.44.245.159/article8145.htm

"What has happened in Lebanon is an inseparable part of the plan to restructure the Middle East. This causes real worries to the people of this region," Shaban told Aljazeera.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4EE5CB31-3106-4A23-A07D-1E8A7FE51CD2.htm
http://snipurl.com/d05y


From Information Clearing House

by Ilana Mercer

AntiWar.Com

02/23/05

Most real people had a 9/11 moment. Ann Coulter's call to arms was particularly memorable. For exhorting, 'We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,' she was even banished from National Review. This was indeed a puzzling purge, considering neoconservatives promptly adopted her recommendations, invaded Muslim countries, and killed their leaders. The neocons have adopted all of Coulter's recommendations, save the peaceful one...

http://www.antiwar.com/mercer/?articleid=4931


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, went further than any other senior international statesman yesterday when he pointed the finger of blame at Syria for the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,13031,1419821,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://snipurl.com/cz1c


From Information Clearing House

by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

02/21/05

It is hypocritical for the administration to punish Syria for assassinating a former Lebanese prime minister (assuming the Syrians did it) when the U.S. led its own campaign to kill leaders of the Iraqi regime, including Saddam Hussein and his two sons. It is also duplicitous for the Bush administration to point the finger at Syria for having 14,000 troops in Lebanon, when the United States originally approved that troop presence and when it has 150,000 of its own troops occupying Iraq...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1466


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The United States warned Syria on Friday that it must help investigate the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri or face the possibility of further sanctions.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/18/us_to_syria_probe_hariri_killing_or_face_sanctions/
http://tinyurl.com/5xwux


From Information Clearing House

A neo-conservative strategist who has long called for the United States to work together to "roll back" the Ba'ath-led government in Syria has been quietly appointed as a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://207.44.245.159/article5031.htm