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Middle East History 1991 - Israel's Prime Minister Shamir said that Israel would never give up the occupied territories and declared the Golan Heights "part of Israel." On March 7th, U.S. President Bush had called upon Israel to abide by U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 as well as the principle of "territory for peace." 1992 - In Buenos Aires, 10 people were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack against the Israeli embassy. 2003 - U.S. President Bush announced that Saddam Hussein had 48 hours to leave Iraq. 2004 - In Baghdad, Iraq, a car bomb was used in an attack on the Mount Lebanon Hotel killing 7 people and wounded 41 people. 2004 - The Iraqi Governing Council asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to send a U.N. team to assist in putting together a government that would be able to take over from the U.S.-led coalition on June 30. The council also requested technical assistance for the general election due by the end of January 2005. 2004 - The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri called a truce with Spain to allow them time to remove troops from Iraq. The group had carried out a terrorist attack the previous week that killed over 200 people in Madrid. The group had said that they had ochestrated the bombings to punish Spain for supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq. 2004 - Israel's Supreme Court imposed an open-ended freeze on construction of a 15-mile section of the country's West Bank separation barrier. The work had originally been frozen on February 29. 2005 - Thirteen main Palestinian militant groups declared a halt to attacks on Israel for the rest of 2005. However, they warned that the truce would collapse if Israel did not hold its own fire and release Palestinian prisoners. 2005 - Syria ended its first phase of pulling out of Lebanon.
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