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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30801-2005Feb16.html
U.S. Tensions With Syria Escalate
(Washington Post) Robin Wright and Peter Baker - The Bush administration intensified its search Wednesday for punitive actions - from freezing assets to tightening diplomatic isolation - to force Damascus to withdraw troops from Lebanon, end support for terrorism, and block assistance to the Iraqi insurgency through Syria. The U.S. is now using the world furor over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri to generate momentum against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The assassination put Syria back on the Bush administration's front burner.