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Another Syrian Round of Applause

Another Syrian Round of Applause

by Nir Boms "We are neither a great power nor a weak country, we are not a country without cards or foundations" said Syrian president Basher Assad in a recent interview as he planned to pull another card from his sleeve. "We are not a country that can be passed...

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May 11, 2008
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Assad Under Siege

Assad Under Siege

By Nir Boms/ Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Published May 15, 2006 "Iran and Syria are in the same boat," said former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani during a visit to Damascus on April 12. In likening the two countries' predicaments, Mr. Rafsanjani continued, "The enemies of Syria are trying to increase the pressure,...

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May 11, 2008
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A Syrian Alternative

A Syrian Alternative

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | September 6, 2005 The "pursuit of peace and stability in the Middle East" - a stated American foreign policy objective in the region - appears more remote these days after another wave of terrorist attacks in Iraq, continuing terror threats in Europe, and the recent launch...

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May 11, 2008
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A Sheikh Speaks

A Sheikh Speaks

By NIR BOMS August 9, 2006 When Sheikh Abdullah Algharib Alhamad Altamimee, a Syrian Sufi scholar who has been teaching Islam for 13 years, decided to speak against the Assad regime, he broke with a thousand years of Sufi tradition. When he decided to travel to Washington last month and...

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May 11, 2008
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A Dissident in Paris

A Dissident in Paris

Jan. 17, 2004 By NIR BOMS & ERICK STAKELBECK Nizar Nayouf has not only seen hell, he has even lived to tell about it. Barely. Just 41 years old, Nayouf suffers from permanent spinal injuries, a failing left kidney, a bleeding gastric ulcer, and deteriorating eyesight. He also has paralysis...

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May 11, 2008
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The French Connection…to Syria

The French Connection…to Syria

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | March 5, 2004 In 1978, as protests against Shah Phalavi swept across Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was living in a cozy house in the Parisian suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau, engineering an Islamic revolution that would soon shake the world. Under the watchful eye of the French...

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May 8, 2008
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Promoting Human Rights

Promoting Human Rights

Article published Mar 7, 2008 By Nir Boms An important, yet underreported, summit took place recently in Riyadh. Turki K. Al Sudairy, a Saudi minister and president of the Saudi Supreme Human Rights Commission and Pakistan's federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney, conducted a series of high level meetings...

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May 8, 2008
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Saudi Arabia: An “Ally” We Could Do Without

Saudi Arabia: An “Ally” We Could Do Without

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | December 10, 2004 "Fighting the occupiers is a duty for all those who are able," reads an open letter to the Iraqi people currently posted on the Internet. Issued by more than two dozen Saudi scholars and preachers on November 6, the letter calls on...

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May 8, 2008
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Saudi Promises

Saudi Promises

4/21/2004 By Nir Boms and Erick StakelbecK Under the auspices of the United Nations and the Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, representatives from 14 Muslim countries gathered in Istanbul on April 12-14 to discuss implementing democratic reforms in the Middle East.  While it came as no shock that...

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May 8, 2008
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Gaza’s New Residents

Gaza’s New Residents

by Nir Boms 02/20/2008 12:00:00 AM EGYPTIAN TROOPS RECENTLY sealed the border with the Gaza Strip, ending 12 days of freedom of movement for Palestinians. The Egyptian troops are still allowing Palestinians and Egyptians to return home, but have stopped--according to recent reports--the free flow of cross-border movement. (more…)

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May 8, 2008
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