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Obama sending diplomats to Syria in peace probe (AP)

 

Published 3/3/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

AP - The United States will dispatch two emissaries to Syria for "preliminary conversations" aimed at warming relations with an Arab adversary accused of supporting terrorism, seeking weapons of mass destruction, facilitating the insurgency in neighboring Iraq and balking at talking peace with Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday. (link)

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