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Tue 04 Apr 2001US calls for restraint from all sides as Mid-East tensions rise
The United States yesterday called on all sides in the Middle East to exercise restraint after Israel bombed a Syrian radar station in Lebanon, its first attack on a Syrian position in Lebanon since 1996.
The strike, about 22 miles east of Beirut, which killed three Syrian soldiers, was in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli soldier on Saturday on the Lebanese-Israeli border by Hizbullah guerrillas.
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