[lit-ideas] Bad Times for Another Dynasty
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:39:05 -0400
extract from http://slate.msn.com/id/2128659/fr/rss/
Fall of the House of Assad?
Why Syria's ruling family could be in trouble.
By Bidisha Banerjee, Torie Bosch, Zuzanna Kobrzynski, and Blake
Wilson
Syria: Time's article on the recent U.N. report accusing Syrian
President Bashar Assad's inner circle of "playing leading roles"
in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri suggests that an end to the Assad family's reign is a
"real, if still distant, possibility." Such a collapse could
result in "a political vacuum that leads to a civil war between"
the majority Sunni Muslims and the minority Alawites, a sect that
includes the Assad family. "This is the most serious crisis in
the recent history of Syria," says a Syrian scholar. … Newsweek
shifts the focus from the Assad clan to Sheik Ahmed Abdel-Al, "a
central figure in the benign-sounding Association of Islamic
Philanthropic Projects in Lebanon" whose phone activity just
before and after the assassination makes him look like "a
switchboard operator at the nexus of several elaborate circuits."
The sheik's attempt to steer the focus of the investigation to a
man who has since disappeared makes him even more sinister.
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