Bashar Assad is incapable of honoring his commitment to end Syrian support for terrorism, a senior U.S. official reportedly said this week. Reporters accompanying Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Washington this week quoted an Israeli source who said the Americans believe the Syrian president is being manipulated by hard-line advisers who served his late father, Hafez Assad.
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