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July 15, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/magazine/10SYRIA.html

The Enigma of Damascus

(New York Times Magazine) James Bennet - To the Bush administration, Bashar al-Assad is a murderous proxy warrior, permitting or even encouraging jihadists to stream eastward into Iraq, and allowing Iranian weapons to stream westward to the guerrilla group Hizballah in Lebanon. The Bush administration accuses him also of encouraging terrorism to the south, against Israel, by permitting militant Palestinian leaders to operate in Damascus. It sees him as a dictator interrupting a new expansion of democracy from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf.

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