(AP/Washington Post) Anne Gearan - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice linked the assassination Tuesday of anti-Syrian politician George Hawi in Lebanon with the continued activities of longtime overlord Syria. "There is a context and an atmosphere of instability. Syria's activities are a part of that context and that atmosphere and they need to knock it off....Their visible forces are gone but they clearly are still acting...in Lebanon," she said. U.S. officials claimed this month that Syria may be running down a hit list of opposition figures.
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