(AP/Washington Post) Secretary of State Powell said he told Syrian President Assad in Damascus on Saturday that his support of terrorist groups, including harboring Palestinian organizations engaged in terror attacks against Israelis, "makes it hard to move forward on the Middle East peace process. These things have to come to an end." Assad responded, Powell said, that he would close the groups' offices and "indicated he would constrain their activities." The USA Patriot Act, passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to crack down on terrorists, includes penalties against countries that refuse to interrupt terrorist financing within their borders.
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