Word: assad
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...known that the target was a secret nuclear reactor being built with North Korean assistance - a claim that was widely viewed through the prism of false U.S. claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the Bush Administration's animus toward Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime over its support for Hizballah and Palestinian radical groups, as well as its failure to curb jihadist insurgents crossing into Iraq...
...provided him with a “wake-up call for how fast everything is happening.” His father said he now knows that the “best institution is the best for the child.” —Crimson staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached at bassad@fas.harvard.edu...
...committee contacted agreed that academics were the top priority in future scheduling considerations. Still, all the initiatives discussed at yesterday’s meeting are tentative. Committee members promised to have more specific versions of the proposals drafted by next month. —Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached at bassad@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...style but also a commanding view of the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. "Top of Z Town" is its Pep Le Pew--esque slogan, but everyone knows who's really on top in this town. From a hill above Z Bar, the glass faade of Bashar Assad's presidential palace looks down at his capital like an unblinking eye. And the stern portraits of Assad on every block suggest that Damascus is not party central for the Middle East just...
Beneath the froth, Syria's financial picture is still grim. Oil production--which once accounted for 90% of government revenue--is on the decline. Inflation has rendered unsustainable the food and fuel subsidies on which millions of poor Syrians depend. Enter President Assad, who Syrians hope can help attract much needed foreign investment. Once persona non grata in the West, Assad is more secure than ever at home and abroad. The violence that followed U.S. regime change in Iraq has raised his profile in a region where stability is often valued over freedom. In August, French President Nicolas Sarkozy became...