timesonline.co.uk - 11/19/2008
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Britain re-established high-level intelligence links with the Syrian authorities as David Miliband made his landmark visit to Damascus yesterday, according to senior Syrian officials. The move, first raised earlier this year at a meeting in New York between the Foreign Secretary and his Syrian ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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Last night, some friends and I were listening
to “Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend” and the little-known...
fact that The Mr. T Experience’s Dr. Frank was a big-time liberal hawk warblogger back in the day came up. Even better, unlike most ...
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What a Time It Was
washingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
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Aaron David Miller - For Obama, a Syria Solution First
jpost.com - 11/25/2008
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The chief UN nuclear inspector has urged caution
against prematurely judging Syria's atomic program by reminding diplomats...
about false US claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, comments released Tuesday show. The bluntness of ...
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... to arm merchant ships in the area with mini-guns. Head Won't Go For Baby P Mistakes. An apology is not enough. People must be sacked for their incompetance. Hundreds die of cholera in Zimbabwe. The situation is getting beyond help. Still the west does nothing. Russia to build nuclear reactor for Hugo Chavez. More shit stirring from Putin. Can't wait to see what happens whn Raul Castro visits Moscow soon. Britain re-establishes high-level intelligence links with Syria. Why? Syria cannot be ...
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... day:
Never mind, Miliband holds a joint news conference with the Syrian FM who blames Israeli bombs for the processed uranium UN inspectors uncovered. Miliband assures reporters that Syria is a good country, a true force for stability in the Middle East.
Why? He and Sarkozy dream of driving a wedge between Iran and Syria. The Syrian FM was not silly enough to disabuse him of the dream.
According to the Telegraph he’s gone a step further (via Daily Alert).
Britain re-established high-level ...
Britain Rewards Syria, Reestablishes Intelligence Ties
Weekly Standard Blog —
... British intelligence has reestablished links with Syrian intelligence at the highest level on terrorism issues and other matters after a visit by Foreign Minister David Miliband. “Mr Miliband's visit, the first by a British foreign secretary for seven years, was touted as an opportunity to test Syria's willingness to engage with the West, lifting it out of its current isolation,” the London Times reported. “Washington has long insisted on isolating Syria but with a change of administration - and attitude - looming, Britain and France are leading efforts to lure Damascus ...
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