DECEMBER 2003 : (SYRIAN ACCOUNTABILITY ACT) According to the most recent Department of State Patterns of Global Terrorism Report: “[Syria] continued in 2001 to provide safe haven and logistics support to a number of terrorist groups.”
Among the terrorist groups named are Ahmad Jibrils Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Abu Musa’s Fatah-the-Intifadah, George Habashs Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and HAMAS which continued to maintain offices in Damascus.
Syria is suspected of providing Hizballah, HAMAS, PFLP-GC, the PIJ, and other terrorist organizations refuge and basing privileges in Lebanons Bekaa Valley, under Syrian control.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 issued in 1978, called for the withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops from Lebanon.
Israel subsequently withdrew all of its armed forces from Lebanon in accordance with the resolution, as certified by the United Nations Secretary General.
Even in the face of this United Nations certification that acknowledged Israel’s full compliance with Resolution 425, more than 20,000 Syrian troops and security personnel occupy much of the sovereign territory of Lebanon.
Syria is accused of permitting attacks by Hizballah and other militant organizations on Israeli outposts at Shebaa Farms, under the false guise that it remains Lebanese land, and is also blamed for attacks on civilian targets in Israel.
Syria is also in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 520 issued in 1982 which calls for “strict respect of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity and political independence of Lebanon under the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of Lebanon through the Lebanese Army throughout Lebanon.”
As a result, the Israeli-Lebanese border and much of southern Lebanon is under the control of Hizballah which continues to attack Israeli positions, allows Iranian Revolutionary Guards and other militant groups to operate freely in the area, and maintains thousands of rockets along Israel’s northern border, destabilizing the entire region.
—— Syrian Accountability Act to Combat Terrorism, Talon News ^ | 12/18/03 | Jim Hauser
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