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...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...
...Syrian and Iraqi forces exchanged fire near the Saudi border, in the first reported combat by Syria in the Persian Gulf...
...also convinced that this war is going to be far more costly--both in terms of the geo-political order and human suffering--than any of us have been led to believe. Who knows what price we will pay for our sudden understanding toward Syrian treachery and the Soviet military crackdown in the Baltics (remember it was our forgiving attitude toward Iraq that got us into this mess to begin with). And God only knows how many people will die when Bush gives the go-ahead for the grand ground offensive into Kuwait...
...Mideast," says a senior Western diplomat in Damascus. What is not in dispute is the notion that, with or without the West's friendship, Assad would jump at the chance to become the unrivaled leader of the Pan- Arabists following Saddam's fall. Considering Assad's success in asserting Syrian control over Lebanon late last year, his room to maneuver already appears greater than it was before the crisis erupted...