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Perspectives.
Byline: QUOTATION SOURCES: CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, Boston Globe, Associated Press (2)
"Someone will have to take responsibility."
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, after U.S. soldiers mistakenly fired on a vehicle carrying Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, whom insurgents finally released after four weeks in captivity. The attack left shrapnel in her shoulder and killed an Italian Secret Service agent in the car.
"We would not stay one day if there was Lebanese consensus on the departure of Syria."
Syrian President Bashar Assad, speaking to a crowd of supporters about his plans to ignore the Bush administration's call for a complete withdrawal from Lebanon
"Before God, before the people, I have a clear conscience."
Former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, after a former Interior minister, Yuri Kravchenko, shot himself twice and left a suicide note that raised suspicions of Kuchma's involvement in the murder of Georgiy Gongadze, ...
- In Bashar Assad's most challenging foreign crisis, Syria has few options,...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 7, 2003 700+ words
...purported militant camp close to the Syrian capital is President Bashar Assad's first real test since he took office in 2000. His options...tension," he said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Syria, he added, "is not weak and is not incapable...
- Assad's brother may challenge smooth transition of power to Bashar Assad.
- News wire article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 12, 2000 700+ words
...conversation Sunday. "He represents legitimacy in Syria," Rifaat's spokesman, Al-Hareth Al-Khair, told the Associated Press in a separate call. The media campaign also included a statement read to the Syrian people on the Arab News Network...
- Bashar Assad elected head of Syria's ruling party.
- News wire article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 18, 2000 700+ words
...Byline: Hugh Dellios DAMASCUS, Syria _ Bashar Assad was elected head of Syria's ruling...most likely biding their time, gauging Bashar Assad's chances of success, making their...far enough. Anticipating resistance, Bashar Assad and his father began clearing the way...
- Bashar Assad elected head of Syria's ruling party.(Chicago Tribune)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dellios, Hugh June 18, 2000 700+ words
DAMASCUS, Syria _ Bashar Assad was elected head of Syria's ruling...likely biding their time, gauging Bashar Assad's chances of success, making...enough. Anticipating resistance, Bashar Assad and his father began clearing the...
- While Bashar Assad assumes power in Syria, neighbors take a wait-and-see...
- News wire article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 11, 2000 700+ words
...s political skills or intentions. Bashar Assad is so little known, and the stakes...increasingly vocal government would like to see Bashar Assad depart from this father's way of doing...officials. For the last several years, Bashar Assad has acted as his father's liaison...
- While Bashar Assad assumes power in Syria, neighbors take a wait-and-see...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Hedges, Stephen J. June 11, 2000 700+ words
...s political skills or intentions. Bashar Assad is so little known, and the stakes...increasingly vocal government would like to see Bashar Assad depart from this father's way of doing...officials. For the last several years, Bashar Assad has acted as his father's liaison...
- SYRIA: ECONOMY UNDER BASHAR ASSAD.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 31, 2003 700+ words
...country. In his three years in power, Bashar Assad has managed to juggle these tests without...Syrian-Jordanian border. President Bashar Assad, unlike his father, seems willing...ministers, industrialists and politicians. Bashar Assad seems to be continuing in his father...
- Syrian officials move quickly to assure Bashar Assad's leadership.
- News wire article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 11, 2000 700+ words
...crowds chanted his name in the streets, Bashar Assad's rise to succeed his father as Syria...power base and virtually ensuring that Bashar Assad would be the nation's next leader...fateful foggy night six years ago, Bashar Assad never needed the hard edge required...
- Syrian officials move quickly to assure Bashar Assad's leadership.(Chicago...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dellios, Hugh June 11, 2000 700+ words
...crowds chanted his name in the streets, Bashar Assad's rise to succeed his father as Syria...power base and virtually ensuring that Bashar Assad would be the nation's next leader...fateful foggy night six years ago, Bashar Assad never needed the hard edge required...
- For Syrians, Bashar Assad could be ticket into the Digital Age.(Chicago Tribune)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dellios, Hugh June 15, 2000 700+ words
...foreign investors. Syrians' encouragement is what they see in Bashar Assad, the London-trained eye doctor who has promoted computerization...board of directors of the Syrian Computer Society, which Bashar Assad heads. "He's looking for Syria to be modern." Life...
Source: HighBeam Research, Perspectives.