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Assad’s Glasnost?

Assad’s Glasnost?

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...

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May 11, 2008
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Assad on the Rocks

Assad on the Rocks

Oct. 9 2005, Nir Boms Facing additional pressures at home and abroad, the schedule of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, is particularly busy these days. There is much to do and time is of the essence. His timing, however, does not seem to work. For example, President Assad had planned to head...

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May 11, 2008
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Assad Is Speaking

Assad Is Speaking

  December 10, 2003 By Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck In his three and a half years as Syrian President, 38-year-old Bashar Al-Assad has been called many things by U.S. officials. Misunderstood is not one of them. Yet, if Assad's recent comments to the New York Times are any indication,...

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May 11, 2008
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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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