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...ther during a visit to Kuwait. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Army Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said U.S. forces had killed a large number of foreign fighters who had come to Iraq to aid President Saddam Hussein, most of them from Syria. The U.S. focus on Syria has sparked alarm in the region and words of caution from around the world. Damascus accuses the United States of targeting Syria because of Washington’s close alliance with Israel. U.S. ACCUSATIONS that Syria has chemical weapons and is harboring Iraqi fugitives have escalated sharply in the past week now that the worst of the fighting in Iraq has been declared over. Tuesday, a U.S. official told Reuters that former Iraqi spy chief Farouk Hijazi was believed to be in Syria, which would be an especially serious charge. Hijazi was director of external operations for the Iraqi intelligence agency in the mid-1990s, when it allegedly tried to assassinate President Bush’s fa...