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		<title>US and France warn Syria: don&#8217;t meddle in Lebanon elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S., France and the League of Arab Nations warned Syria on Saturday not to meddle in the upcoming Lebanese presidential elections. Here&#8217;s a clip from the article explaining the conflict: Presidential elections in Lebanon have been twice deferred because of a lack of consensus over who should replace the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, whose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=28&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United States invites Syria to Peace Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States announced on Sunday that Syria is welcome to participate in the peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, but only if it agrees to focus on Palestinian-Israeli issues, not on the Golan Heights.  Israel, Palestine and the U.S. are planning to meet to re-open the &#8220;roadmap to peace&#8221;  between the two nations. Syria and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=27&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nearly 2 months on, all parties are silent on Syrian air strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly eight weeks have passed, and all is remains quiet regarding a Sept. 6 Israeli air strike on a Syrian military facility.  Many players have a lot at stake, including Syria, Israel, the US and North Korea.  Washington Post Deputy Editor Jackson Diehl spells out the diplomatic quandry in his editorial today: &#8220;Now Israeli and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=26&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian police kill a PKK demonstrator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Syrian police killed one Kurdish demonstrator at a pro-PKK rally outside the Syrian village of Qamishli over the weekend. About 200 kurds had gathered there to show support for their PKK allies in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. The PKK, which advocates for a kurdish state in the region, has been involved in military [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=25&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria won&#8217;t hold anti-Palestinian Authority conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[HAMAS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to outside pressure, Syria has forbidden a summit of Palestinian factions that was scheduled to be held in Damascus at the same time as the Annapolis Peace Conference. The factions included members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, which opposes the leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Both groups are on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=24&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian Authority to Syria: Don&#8217;t host HAMAS meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority travelled to Damascus on Sunday to urge Syria not to host a gathering involving Hamas and others opposed to a peace conference with Israel to be held soon in the United States. &#8220;Hosting this meeting in Damascus would deepen Palestinian divisions and harm Arab efforts to overcome the crisis that led to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=22&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel to Turkey: Sorry, we might have invaded your airspace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apologized to Turkey on Sunday for possibly invading Turkish airspace. Mr. Olmert refrained from admitting that it was during a Sept. 6 air strike on a Syrian military site. Israel has yet to officially admit it carried out the strike. Turkish authorities have complained that Israel dropped fuel tanks on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=21&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IAEA chief criticizes Israel for strike on Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, criticized  Israel in a CNN interview for it&#8217;s Sept. 6 airstrike on a facility in Syria, saying that Israel&#8217;s pre-emptive strike &#8220;is very distressful because we have a system.  If countries have information that the country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=20&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photos said to show Israeli strike site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. security analysts say they believe they have satellite photos of the site in northeastern Syria which was the target of a Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike. Both U.S. and international experts said the site is similar to that of a nuclear facility in North Korea. The photos depict a compound with a tall chamber that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=19&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN and Syria will count all Iraqi refugees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Development Program and Syria signed an agreement on Sunday to count displaced Iraqi citizens who are residing in Syria, and to determine what socioeconomic effects they may be having on the country. It is rumored that up to 1.5 million Iraqi refugees are living in Syria, more than any other country. Syrian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissaschmittsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827157&amp;post=17&amp;subd=melissaschmittsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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