… Syrian statements on Tuesday. Its correspondent in Beirut, Anthony Shadid, landed interviews with presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban and with Rami Makhlouf, the powerful maternal cousin of President Bashar Assad, who represents the financial front of the regime. Shadid was...
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and to put Shaaban on the same level as Makhlouf is absurd. Shaaban is viewed as a spokesman for the president
[9 regime had opted to fight, insisting that all its members were united: “We will sit here. We call it a fight until the end.” He also issued a transparent threat: “They should know when we suffer, we will not suffer alone.” Some have suggested that the two messages reveal a s...
Shaaban described the recent statements of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Syria as “not too bad
20 even Alawite predominance, would never survive a system shaped by free elections, the rule of law, and the existence of independent media. The New York Times interviews were made possible by the deep uneasiness in the Obama administration with moves that might destabilize th...