Syria Accountability Act

Syria Accountability Act

The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SALSRA) is a bill of the United States Congress passed into law on December 12, 2003.

The bill's stated purpose is to end what the United States sees as Syrian support for terrorism, to end Syria's presence in Lebanon, which has been in effect since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, to stop Syria's alleged development of WMDs, to cease Syria's illegal importation of Iraqi oil and to end illegal shipments of military items to anti-US forces in Iraq.

The bill was sponsored by Representative Eliot L. Engel (D) from New York and was introduced April 12, 2003.

ee also

*Pax Syriana

External links

* [http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:H.R.1828: The full text of the act]
* [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031212-3.html Statement of President Bush upon signing the bill]


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