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American Envoy in Syria Greeted With Flowers in Hama

July 9, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

Apparently, the American envoy to Syria was greeted with flowers when he visited the city of Hama. Just a small reminder of how fickle flower-throwing can be: Lebanese southerners also threw flowers at the invading Israelis in 1982