US expands 'axis of evil'
The United States has added Cuba, Libya and Syria to the nations it claims are deliberately seeking to obtain chemical or biological weapons.
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Get directly involved in Syria, or watch extremists take charge
Harry Sterling, Ottawa Citizen
March 12, 2012
'Assad must go." Those strong words were uttered by Foreign Minister John Baird when he announced the Conservative government had closed the Canadian embassy in Damascus, Syria, last week.
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