Word: assad
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...minister who was present when Baker met with King Fahd last week. "We didn't need to be told that we Arabs can help Bush by showing some flexibility. We owe him for the gulf war, and in any event we see the Democrats as Zionists. Even ((Syrian President)) Assad understands that four more years of Bush would be better for him, which is why we don't expect Damascus to object too loudly when the loan guarantees are granted, even if Israel's settlement freeze is less than total...
Syria faces a particularly delicate balancing act. Rabin's strategy of focusing first on a Palestinian settlement irritates President Hafez Assad, who is skeptical about ever achieving peace with Israel and is determined that no Arab party should conclude a separate deal. Even if Damascus-Jerusalem talks do proceed, Rabin has taken a very tough line on returning the Golan Heights, captured in the 1967 war. Yet without Moscow as a patron, Assad has little choice but to renounce his traditional role of spoiler and board the peace train if he wants access to Western trade and investment...
...central figure emerging from the Interfor investigation is a 44-year-old Syrian arms and drug trafficker, Monzer al-Kassar. His brother-in-law is Syria's intelligence chief, Ali Issa Duba, and his wife Raghda is related to Syrian President Hafez Assad...
...took three informants just to keep tabs on al-Kassar," claims Coleman. He said the informants reported that al-Kassar and the Syrian President's brother Rifaat Assad were taking over drug production in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, under protection of the Syrian army. Coleman also says he learned that the principal European transfer point for their heroin shipments was the Frankfurt airport...
...Europe that once offered training bases and safe haven to terrorists are now cooperating with the West in tracking them down. In the Middle East, allied bombs and U.N. sanctions have left Iraq without the means or gumption to continue sponsoring terrorists. Since the gulf war, Syrian President Hafez Assad has taken care not to antagonize the U.S. He has expelled some foreign terrorists from Syrian-controlled Lebanon and has reportedly told others that they can stay in the Bekaa Valley only on condition that they do not venture forth to hit Western targets...