Nir Boms

Journalist, Writer, Middle East Analyst

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Axis or Not

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Syria

May 19, 2004
By Nir Boms
As news of the Abu Ghraib scandal and Nicholas Berg’s beheading dominates the headlines, American media have all but ignored one of the most significant developments since President Bush’s now-famous 2002 “axis of evil” statement: the presidential signature on sanctions against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.
In accordance with the Syria Accountability [...]

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Assad’s Glasnost?

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Syria

By Elliot Chodoff and Nir Boms
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 21, 2005
It was a busy week of hospitality for Bashar Al-Assad.  As visitors from America and China graced the halls of the presidential palace in Damascus, longer-staying guests continued to depend on Assad’s welcome and shelter to make trouble across Syria’s borders.
Senator John Kerry, still in presidential campaign [...]

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