ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Israel National News
28January2011 11:58amEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The United States resumed full diplomatic ties with Syria this week, 
sending new ambassador Robert Ford, who met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Thursday.
Ford told Assad that he hopes America's relationship with Syria will improve.
The U.S. pulled its ambassador in 2005 following the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Syria was suspected of involvement in the killing. At the time Syria was already under sanctions for its support for Hizbullah and other terrorist groups.
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