Syria blames U.S. for embassy attack
Claims Washington orchestrated it
to get concessions from Damascus
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51942

By Aaron Klein
2006 WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM – The attack today against the United States embassy in Damascus was orchestrated by American intelligence to embarrass the Syrian regime and extract political concessions, a senior member of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath Party claimed to WND.

"We in the government are 100 percent sure America was behind this attack, which is not the same as other attacks by Islamic groups," said the senior Baath party official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Only the Americans can succeed in carrying out an attack just 200 meters from President Assad's residence in the most heavily guarded section of Syria," the official said.

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SUBJECT: Imposition of Special Measures against Commercial Bank of Syria
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/srletters/2006/SR0606.htm

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is issuing this SR letter to advise banking organizations under its supervision of new obligations relating to Commercial Bank of Syria imposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). On March 15, 2006, FinCEN issued a final rule that imposes special measures under section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act (31 U.S.C. 5318A) against Commercial Bank of Syria