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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/international/worldspecial/15BORD.html?hp
Border Tension in Syria Feeds Anti-U.S. Rage
(New York Times) Along the Iraqi-Syrian frontier, tensions with the American soldiers just across the border are running high. Syrian soldiers say that four villagers have been shot by American soldiers in the past month. Videos circulating through the Syrian border villages exhort viewers to attack the Americans in Iraq. One of the videos showed what appeared to be the beheading of a soldier from a Western country by a crowd of Middle Easterners.