Syria hasn’t decided whether to crack down on Palestinian terror groups operating on its soil, Syrian President Bashar Assad said. Assad’s comments, made in an interview with Newsweek, came after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters after meeting with Assad earlier this month that Syria had agreed to clamp down on these groups.
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