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October 7, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/6947915.htm

U.S. Policy Change Taking Shape Over Syria

(Knight Ridder/Contra Costa Times) Warren P. Strobel - Following Israel's attack on an a terrorist training camp in Syria, a harsher policy toward Damascus is taking shape on Capitol Hill and in the Bush administration. Hawks at the Pentagon haven't given up on the idea of "regime change" in Damascus and recently asked the CIA to come up with a list of Syrian notables who might one day succeed Bashar Assad. Syria "is living on borrowed time," a State Department official said recently. The House International Relations Committee is scheduled on Wednesday to approve the Syria Accountability Act, which would encourage Bush to impose new economic and diplomatic sanctions on Assad's government.

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