President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
comforted him earlier in the week that he had "turned the page of the events" in his country.
Karami, who visited Assad along with his son Minister Faisal Karami on Wednesday, told An Nahar daily that the "the story is over."
Assad comforted him that he had "turned the page of the events" that shook the neighboring country, saying things were "under control."
"We are no longer worried," Karami quoted the Syrian president was telling him.
The former premier told An Nahar that the information about the crackdown in Syria and the uprising against the regime is totally different than what is taking place there.
The Syrian security forces have controlled the situation, he said.
Karami also quoted Assad as saying that Syria still has good relations with several influential countries in the world.
The United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
says 2,700 people have been killed in the protests against Assad. The U.N. Security Council, meanwhile, remains divided over whether to threaten the regime with sanctions over its deadly crackdown on dissent.