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Still, Bashar has positioned himself as more reformer than strongman. As president of Syria's computer society, he has recruited technocrats to help broaden Syria's cyber horizon--this in a country where only 2,000 people are officially allowed access to the Internet. (King Abdullah of Jordan, who knows Bashar well, calls him an "Internet youth.") Bashar also reportedly wants more foreign investment in Syria--but whether that translates into closer ties to the West is anybody's guess. Bashar will need much of his father's cunning to put his own vision in place...
...succor to their enemies: For decades the principal expression of his conflict with Israel over the Golan Heights was the space and support he gave to Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon; while Syria's conflict with Turkey over water resources led him to allow the Kurdish guerrillas of Abdullah Ocalan's PKK to make their rear base in Syrian-controlled Lebanon...
...NAME, TEAM] Asim Abdullah, Commerce One [SOLD*] $81 million [CURRENT**] $148 million [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS] Vice president of B2B player lightens up; sector crumbles
Jordan may be Israel's best friend in the Arab world, but King Abdullah was never going to give Ehud Barak a blank check on the future of Jerusalem. The king made a brief visit to the Jewish state Sunday and held low-profile working meetings with Prime Minister Barak and other officials, disappointing Israeli hopes for a high-profile state visit. More alarming for Israel, Abdullah threw down a challenge in an interview with Israeli TV Saturday, urging that Jerusalem be declared an "open city" that could function at once as the capital of the Jewish state...
...Hashemite kingdom has its own areas of conflict with the Jewish state over issues such as water. By virtue of its geography as much as anything else, Jordan also remains a key ally in the long-term equation of a land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians - Abdullah's kingdom, and a thin line of Israeli troops along the Jordan River, may eventually be all that stands between Yasser Arafat's planned future state and Saddam Hussein's Iraq...