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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030300242.html
U.S. Sends Senior Officials to Syria to Revive Relations
[Washington Post] Glenn Kessler - The U.S. is moving quickly to revive relations with Syria, sending two senior officials to Damascus this weekend to explore how the two countries can move beyond years of bitterness over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and Syria's links to terrorist groups. The U.S. emissaries will be Jeffrey D. Feltman, acting assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs, and Dan Shapiro, the senior official for the Middle East on the National Security Council staff. Feltman held a two-hour meeting Thursday at the State Department with the Syrian ambassador to the U.S. The U.S. has not had an ambassador in Syria for four years, since the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. UN investigators have implicated Syrian officials in the Hariri attack.