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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: US POW in Syria ???

Date: November 23, 1999

Having failed to accomplish much on the issue of American POWs unaccounted-for from World War II, Korea, the Cold, SEA , Desert Storm and many conflucts in between, Bill Clinton has now added another name to the legion of the lost and requested a Congressional probe.

In 1982, Zachary Baumel, a US citizen who served in the Israeli Army, was captured by Syrian forces in Lebanon along with two other Israeli soldiers. Although siad to be captured, the three were referred to by Clinton as MIA... a trend long established by Washington DeCeit to minimize the impact of that POW or Prisoner evokes.

After capture, the three men were known to be held by a Palestinian faction that had broken from the PLO.

``The United States remains determined to pursue every concrete lead to ascertain their fate. We will ... continue to raise this issue with other governments in our search for answers.''

Apparently there have been a few, unsuccessful attempts at discussing the issue of the men... the last in 1994, all of them diplomatic.