Nir’s Notes

By Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck For Bashar Assad, the diffusion of last weekend’s anti-government riots in northern Syria represented a dodged bullet, as his Ba’ath Party was ultimately able to maintain its tyrannical grip over the lives of 22 million Syrians.  For Syria’s democratic reformers, however, the unrest may merely have signified the calm [...]

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Feb. 14, 2004 On to Damascus By NIR BOMS & ERICK STAKELBECK Last month at the Free University of Brussels, just 200 meters from the Syrian Embassy, a group of Syrians gathered to discuss something that can only whispered about in their native land – freedom. The scene was the second conference of the Syrian [...]

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