APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from December 2004

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from December 2004

SYRIA - Pax Americana Is Changing - Part 17C - The Opposition.
December 27, 2004... The Baathist regime in Syria has many opponents - both within the country and abroad. Since the death of President Hafez Al-Assad, an air force general from an Alawite clan who converted into Sunni Islam after taking power in a coup in 1970,...

SYRIA - The Kurdish Militants.
December 27, 2004... There are several clandestine Kurdish parties in Syria all militating for autonomy in a new Syrian federal system similar to the one proposed to be established in Iraq. Syrian Kurds, inspired by the changes in Iraq - where the Kurds are seeking...

SYRIA - US Pressure & Potential Sources Of Trouble.
December 27, 2004... To the Baathist regime, the re-election of President George W. Bush to a second term on Nov. 2 was a worst scenario having become reality. Just when it appeared that Syria was complying in earnest with US demands to secure its border with Iraq...

SYRIA - US May Hit Iraqi Baathists In Syria.
December 27, 2004... The Jerusalem Post on Dec. 23 quoted a "senior" Bush official as saying the US was contemplating incursions into Syrian territory in an attempt to kill or capture "Iraqi Baathists who, it believes, are directing at least part of the attacks...

SYRIA - The Iraqi Baathist Threat.
December 27, 2004... The Dec. 23 Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report from Damascus quoted new Ambassador Allawi as saying the "real danger" to the Assad regime was not pressure from the US and Iraq, but the reformed Iraqi Baathist network in Syria. "There is an...

SYRIA - The Moderate Islamists.(Dr. Mohammed Habash denied an entry into United States)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... There are moderate Sunni Islamists in Syria loyal to the Baathist regime but ideologically independent from the Baath Party line of thinking. They are represented by the Centre of Islamic Studies in Damascus, headed by Dr. Mohammed Habash who...

SYRIA - The Border & Baathists' Situation.
December 27, 2004... The border between Syria and Iraq is a desolate place at Hiri, a tumbledown village located halfway along the 700-km-long frontier. Since the Iraqi authorities and the Americans sealed off the country last month at the time of the offensive in...

SYRIA - Casey's Comments.(George Casey on Syrian help to iraqi insurgents)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... In his Pentagon briefing on Dec. 16, Gen. Casey of the US Army said the Iraqi insurgency was being run in part by former senior Iraqi Baath Party officials operating in Syria who call themselves the "New Regional Command". These men are...