The United States should pressure Syria to oust Palestinian terrorist groups from Damascus and Hezbollah forces from southern Lebanon, Israel’s prime minister said. In an interview published Tuesday in the Yediot Achronot newspaper, Ariel Sharon repeated allegations he raised before the U.S.-led war in Iraq that Baghdad had moved military equipment to Syria on the eve of the conflict.
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