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  • Mob War In the Mideast

    01/04/2006 7:02:52 PM PST · by neverdem · 7 replies · 737+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | January 4, 2006 | David Ignatius
    In the gangster movies, you know all hell is about to break loose when one of the disgruntled old dons decides to switch sides and rat out the young Godfather. Something like that is now happening with Syria -- and it provides a new year's bombshell for an already turbulent Middle East. The turncoat don in this case is Syria's former vice president, Abdul Halim Khaddam. From exile in France, he gave an astonishing interview Friday that linked the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad to the murder last year of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri. He told al-Arabiya television...
  • U.N. Seeks Interview With Syrian President

    01/02/2006 7:16:27 AM PST · by Valin · 5 replies · 200+ views
    AP ^ | 1/02/05
    BEIRUT, Lebanon: U.N. investigators want to question Syria's president and foreign minister about the assassination of a former Lebanese leader and have made a request to that effect, a spokeswoman for the probe said Monday. Nasra Hassan, who speaks for a U.N. commission heading the inquiry, also said investigators want to interview former Syrian Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam "as soon as possible." Khaddam alleged in a television interview broadcast Friday from Paris that the Syrian president had threatened former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri several months before Hariri was assassinated in a Feb. 14 truck bombing. "The U.N. commission has...