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2004-05-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-05-12 2:28:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 About those sanctions against Syria. What may that portend?

Is Syria allied with the cut throats?

Cut Throats, is there nothing they can't take issue with. Local paper's headline reports that Berg was killed as payback for Abu Garbage prison porn. No he was killed to help jump start the total war on Islam.

Posted by Lucky 2004-05-12 12:15:54 PM|| 2004-05-12 12:15:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think this analysis is from someone who's gone to Syria at the wrong time:

- A lot of Saudis pour into Damascus as the weather warms up - thus more hijabs. Truth is that there has been a slow uptick in hijab wearing over the years but it's no epidemic and it's mostly among older women probably going through the emotional changes that older women go through.

- Bashar relies on the radicals as his ultimate check against the Ba'thists. Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah has publicly declared his willingness to fight for Bashar on the streets of Damascus. Remember also that Bashar served a brief apprenticeship in Lebanon during the Israeli withdrawal and believes that Hezbollah can get real results in any policy area. Bashar's mentor is the old Syrian 'wali' of Lebanon, Ghazi Kanaan, the Syrian paymaster for Hezbollah.

Make no mistake - Hafez crushed the Syrian MB in Hama and then turned the leftovers to his will. Bashar is giving them free reign abroad, or perhaps his opponents in country are happy to direct them into Iraq, but Syria is no hotbed for the Ikhwan the same way Egypt is.

Posted by Sawt al-Shebaab 2004-05-12 1:04:15 PM|| 2004-05-12 1:04:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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