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ped, this allowed the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, both the space and a good reason to deny that it
tely made no public comment. We refused to say whether we’d had anything to do with an attack. As we he had hoped, this allowed the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, both the space and a good reason to deny that it had ever happened, deny that he’d been trying to make a nuclear weapon, and thus feel no compelling
hieved its aim. On the afternoon of November 14, we launched a targeted air strike on Hamas’s de facto chief of staff, Ahmed Jabari. We’d gone after Jabari in the past but, for one reason or another, had failed. We also hit nearly two dozen other Hamas targets, including all of the main missile sites we
ped, this allowed the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, both the space and a good reason to deny that it
tely made no public comment. We refused to say whether we'd had anything to do with an attack. As we he had hoped, this allowed the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, both the space and a good reason to deny that it had ever happened, deny that he'd been trying to make a nuclear weapon, and thus feel no compelling
chieved its aim. On the afternoon of November 14, we launched a targeted air strike on Hamas's de facto chief of staff, Ahmed Jabari. We'd gone after Jabari in the past but, for one reason or another, had failed. We also hit nearly two dozen other Hamas targets, including all of the main missile sites we
ional/countriesandterritories/syria/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>.=94 A few months ago, talk of possible massacres of Alawites, who dominate Bash=r al- Assad<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/ba=har_al_assad/index.html?inline=nyt-per>'s government in Syria, seemed =ike pro-regim
iversity of Gaza. "Now the resistance is working freely." Not entirely freely. Mourners broke into a jog on Thursday morning as they =ccompanied Mr. Jabari's remains from his home to a mosque for his funera= because Israeli planes were dropping bombs nearby. High-ranking Hamas off=cials were not among
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Barack Obama
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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Damascus
LOCATION
Middle East
LOCATION
Cairo
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Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Jerusalem
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Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Department of Justice
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Fatah
ORGANIZATION
West Bank
LOCATIONSinai
LOCATIONthe West Bank
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Ehud Barak
PERSON
North Korea
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