Some administration officials have described the American strategy as one of capitalizing on the outrage in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East over the Hariri assassination and the Syrian dominance of Lebanon generally to build up antipathy throughout the region toward President Bashar al-Assad and his Baathist government .
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