Slightly off topic, but interesting.
#
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/syria
#
Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/6227.htm
Syrian Authorities Demand Daily Report On Internet Users From Internet Cafés
The Syrian Center for Communications and Freedom of Expression reports that Syrian authorities have ordered Internet café owners to tighten oversight of Internet users, and to submit a daily report including information about each user: his I.D. card or passport number, details about the computer he used, and when he arrived and when he left the café.
Source: Aafaq.org, March 15, 2008
Posted at: 2008-03-17
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988005/posts
Israel will hold Syria accountable if attacked by Hezbollah
laliban ^ | 3/19/08 | na
Posted on 03/19/2008 2:30:53 AM PDT by Flavius
Beirut - Israel recently conveyed a warning to Syria through a third party that it would hold Damascus accountable if Lebanese Hezbollah launched attacks on the Jewish state, Israeli and European sources said on Friday.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the warning stemmed largely from Israeli concerns that Hezbollah would launch salvos of cross-border rockets to coincide with any major Israeli offensive in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
The sources said the message was conveyed in February through at least one European intermediary following the assassination of a top Hezbollah commander ( pictured) and before this month’s five-day Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in which more than 120 Palestinians, many of them civilians, were killed.
After the group’s senior commander, Imad Moughniyah, was killed in a bombing in Damascus, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel with “open war
(Excerpt) Read more at yalibnan.com ...