Word: assad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the strategic importance of maintaining the relatively pro-Western Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian regimes outweighed their poor treatment of their citizens. But in light of the abysmal human rights record Hafez el-Assad, America's warming relations with Syria are totally unacceptable. To cut off the hand of the Butcher of Baghdad, we have fallen into the arms of the Devil of Damascus...
...Assad had nearly 1000 political prisoners machine-gunned in Damascus after a failed coup attempt. In 1982, he levelled the old quarter of the northern Syrian town of Hama, killing an estimated 20,000 civilians. This is how Assad deals with Syrians...
...dealings outside his borders, Assad's conduct has been equally ruthless. In 1986, for instance, pro-Syrian militiamen (using grenades and poison gas) killed more than 200 Sunni Moslem fundamentalists in Tripoli, Lebanon...
...Assad's regime is also known to be the world's principal sponsor of terrorism. Attacks that have been linked to Syrian groups include the 1980 killing of the Jordanian prime minister, the 1982 assasination of President Gemayel of Lebanon, the 1983 attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1986 attempt to blow up an E1 A1 airliner in London and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...
...unbelievable that America has bent over backwards to prevent the Syrians from leaving the coalition. How can we value a regime like Assad's as an ally, even in time...