(Washington Post) Robin Wright - The Bush administration plans to launch a new effort at the UN this month to tighten the squeeze on Syria and to help Lebanon rebuild politically, according to senior U.S. officials. The goal is to "juxtapose" greater pressure on Syria with international help for Lebanon as it works to regain sovereignty, particularly because the Syrians have not pulled out all of their intelligence agents, said a senior administration official. "If I were in Bashar Assad's shoes, I'd look again about coming to New York. It's not going to be the spotlight he expected," a senior administration official said. If Damascus is found to be involved in the car bombing that killed Hariri, who led a campaign against Syria's domination of Lebanon before his death, then the Syrians "are in trouble," warned the official.
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