This story, though it is in today's San Francisco Chronicle with the headline, "Syria-U.S. relations, never smooth, get much more tense", doesn't really qualify under LBN rules, so here it is in GD.
The reason I post it, is because this makes the 8th story in a little over 2 weeks from AP (that I've seen), on how "tense" things are between the U.S., and Iran, and/or, Syria. What it is in reality, is nothing more than thinly veiled propaganda, no doubt coming directly from PNAC. AP appears to have become a subservient conduit for Rove/PNAC/Likud propaganda, and little else. The neocon plan, as well all know, is to conquer pretty much the entire Middle East, and put it, and its resources, under U.S. (and Israeli) control. These articles are an attempt to "service" that vision/agenda.
At the S.F. Chron's website, the article carries the less inflammatory headline, "With U.S. occupation of Iraq beset by problems, momentum of Syrian cooperation with U.S. slowing". Whatever, here's a few snips, and a link to the entire article.
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Having nervously watched the U.S. Army take hold of neighboring Iraq, Syria seems to have opted for a policy of one step forward, one step back. It says it has shut down the offices of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, the main authors of suicide bombings against Israel. But it hasn't expelled its operatives.
The busloads of fighters who crossed the border into Iraq to fight the Americans have stopped, but others may be slipping through all the same, albeit in smaller numbers and without government connivance, Western diplomats say.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has refused, as has the Arab League, to recognize Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council, but has indicated he would cooperate in efforts to freeze Iraqi assets.
Diplomats in Damascus and analysts abroad say the Syrians haven't grasped that the Bush administration expects much more of them. U.S.-Syrian relations are "a point of high tension right now," Peter W. Singer, national security fellow at the Brookings Institution, said in an interview. Defiance of Washington is "gaining neither the Arab region nor Syria herself much advantage."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/09/04/international1339EDT0605.DTL&type=printable 
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