U.S. Drops Spy Rap Against Syrian-American Airman
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - In the latest  legal setback related to the U.S. war on terror, the military  dropped spy charges on Wednesday against a Syrian-American  airman who worked as a translator at the detention center at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The United States is sending a team   of federal agents to Syria to investigate a failed attack on   the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, a State Department spokeswoman   said on Tuesday.
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A Pentagon analyst suspected of  passing classified information to Israel served as a U.S. Air  Force reservist in Israel, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
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Syria has removed all traces of a building targeted by a mysterious Israeli air attack last month.
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At the urging of the White House,  congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure last month  that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme  interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, The  New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - A military judge  denied a motion to dismiss spy charges against a  Syrian-American airman on Monday despite defense arguments the  government had failed to make a case over the past year.
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U.S. officials said a name on the passenger list matched that of a suspected member of a Moroccan militant group.
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The White House has dropped its insistence on redefining the obligations of the United States under the Geneva Conventions, members of Congress said.
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Syria on Thursday rejected Iraqi accusations that it and Iran were supporting al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq. The comments from the Syrian Foreign Ministry came a day after Iraqi Defense
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates  on Sunday dismissed as the blunt talk of an old spy accusations  by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States  sought to force its will on the world.
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The Bush administration urged  Congress to drop a legislative proposal that would have curbed  the ability of U.S. intelligence to use extreme interrogation  tactics, the White House acknowledged on Thursday.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - The U.S. military  dropped spy charges against a Syrian-American airman who worked  as a translator at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay,  Cuba, on Wednesday after he agreed to plead guilty to several  lesser charges, officials said.
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A Syrian crackdown on terror groups would be the best way to halt violence in Syria and promote peace in the Middle East, the State Department said Monday after the assassination in Damascus of a leader of Hamas' bombing unit.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - A Syrian-born  airman cleared of spy charges under a plea deal told a military  judge on Thursday he had dreamed since boyhood of becoming an  American and begged for "a second chance."
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The Pentagon has censored an audio tape of the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks speaking at a military hearing &#151; cutting out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's explanation for why Islamic militants waged jihad against the United States.
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The Bush administration is  considering tightening U.S. economic sanctions on Syria to put  pressure on Damascus to pull its troops out of Lebanon and  crack down on terrorism, administration officials said on  Friday.
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The number of foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria has decreased noticeably in recent months, corresponding to a similar decrease in suicide bombings and other attacks by the group al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.