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As the Lebanese Presidential deadline of November 12 approaches and tension mounts, everyone is accusing others of plotting assassinations. Here are some of the latest. Lebanon's Saad Hariri Says Syrians Want Him Dead Lebanon's parliamentary majority leader, Saad Hariri, said he has evidence that a senior Syrian official has been plotting to assassinate him and [...]
Syrian Government suddenly raises the Petrol prices for consumers (Thanks Idaf) This means that President Asad is siding with Deputy Prime Minister Dardari against the Baath Party members who spoke out against cutting subsidies. For several months government policy on subsidy reduction has been frozen in dispute. Syria signs $2.6 billion deal with Iran, Venezuela and [...]
Periscope; Syria A New Intelligence Failure? By Mark Hosenball 5 November 2007, Newsweek (thanks M.A.) The Syrian Desert facility that Israel apparently attacked in a shadowy Sept. 6 raid—and that some administration officials believe was a secret nuclear reactor—might be several years old. Israel bombed the complex near the Euphrates River months after alerting the United [...]
T_Desco has compiled these quotes from various news sites William M. Arkin: in What’s In Those Syria Satellite Shots? Washington Post “The military and intelligence officials and watchers I’ve talked to say the evidence they’ve seen is anything but definitive – though they’re getting most of what they know from the media, given how closely [...]
Project for Middle East Democracy has a very interesting website with some wonderful content. Their weekly roundup of news is very helpful and can be subscribed to here. Here are some bits from it. See the bottom lines for Junblatt in Washington: (Always entertaining.) Committee Hearings The Committee on Foreign Affairs (House 10/23): [...]
Ali Sadraddin Bayanouni, the head of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood, has declared that the MB's embrace of democracy means that it will accept a woman or Christian becoming president of Syria if they are elected to the position. This is an important step forward for the Brotherhood. What is next? Will Bayanouni and the Muslim Brothers [...]
حول صنع القرار والسياسة الخارجية في سوريا المستقبل – الاحد 21 تشرين الأول 2007 – العدد 2768 – نوافذ – صفحة 11 دمشق ـ شادي جابر ضمن سلسلة الكراسات الاستراتيجية التي يصدرها دورياً مركز الدراسات السياسية الاستراتيجية بالأهرام، صدر مؤخراً كتاب جديد بعنوان "صنع القرار والسياسة الخارجية في سوريا" للكاتب والباحث السوري الدكتور رضوان زيادة. يتبدى [...]
Israel's Syria Raid Opens Rifts Discord Stirs Among Allies Over Response to Nuclear Threat Wall Street Journal, By JAY SOLOMONOctober 29, 2007 WASHINGTON — Following Israel's attack on an alleged Syrian nuclear facility, the U.S. and international community are increasingly split over how to respond to the latest nuclear-proliferation threat in the Middle East. The [...]
This from Ray Close (ex-CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia) Dear Friends: More thoughts about the ongoing mystery surrounding the Israeli air raid on Syria of September 6, 2007: I still believe that the final truth, whenever it is revealed, will prove to be a major embarrassment for both the Bush administration and the Israelis [...]
More questions are being raised about the solidity of Washington's allegations that the site in Syria hit by Israel was a nuclear plant. A 2003 photo of the site has just been published by the NY Times, which forces us to go back to the four year old debates over whther Syria was developing nuclear power. [...]
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