This page is a narrow-focus warblog. In fact, it's a blog of a war that is only verbal, so far. The content consists primarily of pronouncements by various government officials in the US, Syria and around the world, as well as analysis and commentary from media outlets.
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AFP
-- France
Al Bawaba
-- Jordon, UK
Al Jazeera
-- Qatar
Arab News
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Asia Times
-- Hong Kong
Associated Press (AP)
-- USA
BBC
-- UK
CNN
-- USA
The Daily Star
-- Lebanon
Financial Times
-- UK
Forward
-- USA
The Guardian
-- UK
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The Observer
Google News
Ha'aretz
-- Israel
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Ha'aretz vs. haaretz.com
The Hindu
-- India
IRNA
-- Iran
IslamOnline -- Qatar
Maariv -- now in English
-- Israel
Monday Morning -- Lebanon
New York Post
-- USA
New York Times
-- USA
Reuters
-- UK
Scoop
-- New Zealand
United Press International (UPI)
-- USA
US DoD
Defense Link
US Dept. of State
Int'l Information Programs
US White House, Press Briefing Archive
Washington Post
Cast of Characters
Syria
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CIA
Factbook
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Global Security,
Syria Special Weapons News Archive
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BBC,
profile
Bashar al-Assad, President
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BBC,
profile
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Slate, profile
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Arabic News,
biography
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Forward,
profile
Farouk al-Shara, Foreign Minister
Imad Moustapha, Deputy Syrian Ambassador to the US
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Boston Globe, profile
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personal page?
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Greta's Fox News show,
photo
USA
George W. Bush
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US White House,
biography
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A&E,
biography
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Iraqi News,
biography
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Realchange.org,
Skeletons
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awolbush.com
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bushwatch.com
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whitehouse.org,
biography, may contain satire
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bartcop,
profile of Bush's military career
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
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A & E,
biography
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The New Republic, profile
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
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US DoD, biography
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Wikipedia, biography
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ABC News,
profile
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
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US White House,
biography
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Behind Colin Powell's Legend
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
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US DoD,
biography
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US DoD,
transcripts
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise,
biography
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Slate,
profile
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Foreign Policy in Focus,
track record in Asia
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The Australian,
profile
Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor
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US White House,
biography
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Hoover Institution,
profile
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BBC,
profile
John R. Bolton, Under Secretary of State, Arms Control and International Security
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US Dept. of State,
biography
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Foreign Policy in Focus,
profile
Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
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US DoD, biography
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Middle East Infromation Center, profile
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, biography
Richard Perle, Defense Advisory Board
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AEI,
biography
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Center for Cooperative Research, biography -- scroll down
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Slate,
profile
Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State
NGOs
AEI
AIPAC
PNAC
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PNAC's
website
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pnac.info
UK
Tony Blair, Prime Minister
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10 Downing St.,
biography
Jack Straw, Foreign Minister
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10 Downing St.,
biography
Israel
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister
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Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
biography
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Electronic Intifada,
biography
Shaul Mofaz, Defense Minister
Silvan Shalom, Foreign Minister
Dov Weisglass, Sharon's chief of staff
Ephriam Halevy, National Security Adviser
Palestine
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen)
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Middle East Information Center,
profile
Hamas
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UPI, background on Hamas/Israel connection
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Terrorism Research Center, profile
Lebanon
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CIA,
profile
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Dept. of State,
profile
Emile Lahoud, President
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Lebanese Embassy to the US,
biography
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise,
profile
Rafiq Hariri, Prime Minister
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Lebanese Embassy to the US,
biography
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BBC,
profile
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The Estimate
profile
Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Parliament
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Lebanese Embassy to the US,
biography
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Middle East Intelligence Bulletin,
biography
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Encyclopedia of the Orient,
biography
Jean Obeid, Foreign Minister
Hizbullah
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Hizbullah's
website
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US Dept. of State, profile
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Momkey Media Report,
Hezbollah links
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Yellow Times
The History of Hizbullah
Multi-national Organizations
United Nations
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Arab League
Reciprocity
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War (of Words) with SyriaView current page...more recent posts
[Sharon interview again.]
Toronto Star -- April 16
Israeli leader adds his voice to new Mideast war of words
Sharon demands Syria curb terror Calls for 'pressure,'
but not invasion
by OLIVIA WARD
JERUSALEM—As Washington turned up the volume against Syria, the voice of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reverberated most loudly throughout the Middle East.
Syrian President Bashar Assad "is dangerous. His judgment is impaired," Sharon was quoted as saying in yesterday's Yedioth Aharonoth, a popular Hebrew newspaper.
"In the Iraq war, he proved he was incapable of drawing conclusions from very obvious facts. Anyone with eyes in his head would have known that Iraq was going to be on the losing side. But Assad thought the United States was going to fail," Sharon said.
The prime minister's interview was the latest of a number of government statements in the escalating battle of words between the neighbouring countries, which have technically been at war since 1948.
Israel has accused Syria of harbouring chemical weapons, aiding and abetting Saddam Hussein, and encouraging terrorism against the Jewish state. Syria, meanwhile, has made it clear that if a new conflict began, Israel would not escape unscathed.
In the Arab world, Washington's growing hostility toward Syria has been blamed on Israeli goading, and there is widespread belief that Sharon is hoping to use the presence of hundreds of thousands of American troops in the region as a handy means of settling scores with Israel's old enemy.
"Before even proving that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, (the Americans) are levelling accusations against Syria," Arab League spokesperson Hesham Youssef said yesterday.
"What is even more worrying is that Israel has entered the situation. This is like throwing oil on a fire, and makes the situation even more tense and precarious."
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