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Assad Replaces Envoy to Iraq Who Defected |
2012-10-10 |
[An Nahar] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Horror of Homs... on Tuesday appointed Sattam Jadan al-Dandah as Syria's new ambassador to Iraq, the official SANA news agency reported. He replaces Nawaf Fares who defected in July, "President Assad issued a decree appointing Sattam Jadan al-Dandah as Syrian ambassador to Iraq. He was sworn in by Mr. Assad," the report said. Fares declared his defection on July 11 and withdrew from the ruling Baath party. He later called on the Syrian military to "immediately join the ranks of the revolution," in a statement broadcast by satellite news channel Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... . The authorities in Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... later fired Fares and threatened to prosecute him. |
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