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Bashar Assad likes to be seen. In Damascus, the Syrian President is often spotted dining at a smart restaurant with his wife Asma or driving his family to their weekend retreat in the mountains. Since succeeding his father Hafez as President in 2000, Assad has left the dirty work of running Syria's ruthless intelligence and security organs to two members of his clan--his brother Maher, 37, commander of the Presidential Guard, and his brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, 55, chief of Syrian military intelligence. They haven't always got along. About five years ago, Maher shot Shawkat...
Let’s suppose that Barbie, in her role as avatar of American pre-teen consumerism, has her mirror image in Fulla, the Syrian-created doll with “Muslim values” today being marketed throughout the Middle East.Barbie, for her part, has become the most grotesque form of our materialistic culture. She is a doll whose disproportionate features, skimpy clothing, and overemphasized fondness for acquiring accessories make her an exponent of a decadent Western culture that holds regrettable sway over young girls.Suppose Fulla was hijacked by radical elements of the Islamic world. Suppose they...
...cemented the allegiance of women, appeased Congress (at least temporarily) and, most important, ensured continuous loyalty. As Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright may or may not turn out to be another Henry Kissinger, but she is not going to cool her heels waiting for an audience with a Syrian dictator. Perhaps a consistent foreign policy, sorely missing during the past four years, will now come into existence. While at this time media attention is concentrating on Albright, William Cohen as Secretary of Defense may emerge as the strongest member of the new team. SAMUEL TENNENBAUM West Orange, New Jersey...
...suicide or murder? And why? Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kenaan--who had been Syrian proconsul from 1982 to 2002 and "the real power in Lebanon," says former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel--was found shot in his Damascus office last week, less than two weeks before the expected release of a U.N. report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Syrian authorities swiftly declared Kenaan's death a suicide. Still, speculation swept Damascus that Kenaan may have killed himself because he feared that his government was setting him up in the murder of Hariri, with whom...
...Vulnerable Borders In "Syria Gets the Cold Shoulder" [Sept. 26], TIME reported that most world leaders were unwilling to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad at the U.N. World Summit and that President Bush blames Syria for not doing enough to stop terrorists from entering Iraq. Does no one in the Bush Administration find it ironic that it is criticizing a developing country for its inability to guard its border with Iraq while the U.S. has been unable to secure its own border with Mexico? Why should Syria, which opposed the war, put all its efforts toward securing a border...