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Syria's Business Class Nears a Tipping Point of Defiance


(The National-UAE) Muhammad Ali - Merchants have finally decided to enter the crisis due to economic distress and slumping profits, the extortion by which the regime pays its Shabiha thugs, and civilian casualties in neighborhoods of Damascus. The massacre at Houla and further slaughters only strengthen the resolve of the merchants, mostly Sunni, against the largely Alawite regime.
2012-06-11 00:00:00
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