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SYRIA Today, Apr 19, 2011

Syria crisis could change face of the Middle East
BBC News
Syria is a complex mosaic of communities and President Bashar al-Assad may believe he can use these divisions to maintain his grip on power. His family and associates have a strong hold over the security forces and the army, so the Egyptian example, ...
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BBC News
Scenarios: Stakes high for region as Syria protests unfold
msnbc.com
Nearly 30 years ago, the elder Assad ruthlessly put down an armed Islamist uprising, killing thousands of people in the city of Hama in military operations cloaked from international view. That degree of violence would be harder to get away with today, ...
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Syria lifts hated law, but protesters unimpressed
Forbes
By ZEINA KARAM and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY , 04.19.11, 03:37 PM EDT BEIRUT -- Syria did away with 50 years of emergency rule Tuesday, but emboldened and defiant crowds accused President Bashar Assad of simply trying to buy time while he clings to power in ...
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National and world briefs
News Sentinel
BEIRUT — Syria issued a stern warning to the nation today to stop protesting, hours after security forces opened fire with live ammunition and tear gas on hundreds of anti-government demonstrators during a pre-dawn raid that killed at least one person ...
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Judith Levy: Mideast Roundup: Syria, Israel, Palestine
Benzinga
Their objective is to spread terror across Syria." Assad is pitching his bloody crackdown on his people as a battle against Islamism, which, it will be recalled, was his father Hafez's justification for wiping out most of the population of Hama in 1982 ...
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Are these crazy suits Iran's answer to pro-democracy protests in Syria?
Christian Science Monitor (blog)
Iran and Syria are odd bed-fellows, as far as Mideast alliances go, and these military outfits give a hint of just how odd. Mr. Assad runs a secular regime, while Iran claims governance derives from Islamic mullahs. Iran praises the "Arab spring" ...
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Christian Science Monitor (blog)
Syria Ends Emergency Rule As Opposition Gains Momentum
Truthdig
By Richard Schickel By Wil Haygood By Mr. Fish By EJ Dionne Jr. Syria has moved out of emergency rule after 48 years as President Bashar al-Assad tried Tuesday to appease the pro-democracy movement that has addled him for weeks. ...
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Wikileaks cable reveals US funneling millions into Syria opposition group
Examiner.com
The US State Department has been funneling millions into politician opposition groups to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad according to a State Department cable obtained by Wikileaks. The cables show that this has been going on since the Bush ...
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Inside Daraa
Aljazeera.net
To access the city where Syria's uprising began a local reporter simply had to tell the guards at the first checkpoint the truth: The husband of his wife's cousin had been killed while protesting for freedom and he was there to help bury him. ...
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Aljazeera.net
What we're watching: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 – McDonald's to hire 50000 ...
CNN (blog)
SYRIA ERUPTS AGAIN - Clashes erupted overnight in the restive Syrian city of Homs, with at least three protesters killed and dozens wounded when security forces assaulted activists, a human rights activist told CNN on Tuesday. ...
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Evaluating Syria's reforms
CNN (blog)
When speaking to the new government on April 16, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that once all of these reforms go into effect, there will no longer be any need for demonstrations on the streets, because popular demands would have been met by the ...
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Syria's Religious Scholars: International Union of Muslim Ulama Statement ...
Zawya
The scholars affirmed that the members of the Union of Religious Scholars in Syria were not consulted and none of them signed the statement, referring to a foreign agenda behind the statement. ''The solutions proposed by President al-Assad are not ...
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Holy Week, tax day rallies, protests reach Jordan and Syria and more in the ...
Washington Post
Thousands demanded on Monday the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the funeral of eight protesters killed overnight in the central city of Homs, in escalating unrest despite a promise to lift emergency law. People ride a motorbike past ...
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Daily News Brief
Council on Foreign Relations
The Assad regime has leveraged of fears of sectarian warfare (WSJ) in its efforts to crush popular support for the uprising. Human right groups claim that at least two hundred people have been killed in political violence over the past month. Syria's ...
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Family Time in Syria
Independent Women's Forum
Last month, Vogue ran a ridiculous puff piece on Asma al-Assad, the first lady of Syria (see Charlotte Hays' excellent takedown of the piece here.) The magazine highlights her idyllic family life and her childrearing style: "The household is run on ...
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David Calling
National Review Online
By David Pryce-Jones Elie Kedourie, the most far-sighted and informed of commentators, always used to say that Syria held the key to the future of Palestine, Israel, and the wider region. It seems true right now. But how Bashar Assad will take the ...
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Syrian Cabinet Approves Lifting State of Emergency Law
BusinessWeek
By Inal Ersan and Nayla Razzouk April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Syria's Cabinet approved a draft decree to lift a 48-year-old emergency law, a main demand for protesters seeking greater freedom in the Arab country. The Council of Ministers also passed a bill ...
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The Corner
National Review Online
By Elliott Abrams The news from Syria reveals once again the incoherence of Obama administration policy. With the Asad regime murdering peaceful protesters, the State Department spokesman had this to say on Monday, April 18: “We are very concerned ...
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Syrian reform pledges ring hollow as more protesters killed
Amnesty International
Syria's President must take firm action now to stop the bloody crackdown by his security forces and ensure that those responsible for it are held to account.” “President Bashar al-Assad should match his action in lifting the emergency by establishing ...
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Why Jordan and Syria Are Different
National Catholic Register
That's especially true in Syria, Malik said, where President Bashar Al-Assad, like his father before him, rules with an iron fist. Though educated in Britain, he has refused to lift 50 years of emergency law that bans freedom of the press and allows ...
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National Catholic Register
Syrian authorities blame violence on Muslim jihadists
RIA Novosti
A new government was formed in Syria last Thursday as the country's leadership attempts to ease pressure from protesters for reform. Assad has also pledged to lift this week an emergency law dating back 48 years. The ministry's statement indicates, ...
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Head of Islamic body to step down for Syria minister role
Reuters UK
Syria has been hit by a wave of anti-government protests which have swept across the Middle East and already toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. In response to the growing unrest, President Bashar al-Assad has promised new laws, named a new cabinet ...
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MP of the Free Patriotic Movement Ibrahim Kanaan: Sleiman-Aoun relations are ...
Monday Morning
In Syria, President Assad proved that he has a base and a public, in addition to an immunity which allows him to preserve stability in his country, something which is important for Lebanon since the stability of the two countries is linked. ...
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Monday Morning
State Department Briefing by Mark C. Toner, April 18, 2011
eNews Park Forest
QUESTION: Is the United States Government, through any programs or means, trying to destabilize the Asad regime in Syria? MR. TONER: Well, the premise of your question is whether we are engaged in -- QUESTION: There was no premise. ...
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News Wrap: Afghan Gunman Kills at Least 2 Outside Defense Ministry
PBS NewsHour
At least 23 other people were wounded in the attacks. Approximately 5000 people occupied a major city square in Syria today. They insisted they will not leave until President Bashar Assad steps down, and they defied warnings from authorities. ...
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Controversial Play to Be Staged Without Star
The Mark
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continues to promise liberalizing half-measures as protesters clash with security forces in widening strife. Protesters in Syria continue to demand the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad's regime despite promises to ...
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Capucci: Conspiracy Targets Syria's Pan-Arab Principles
ISRIA (registration)
In his statement on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Evacuation Day (Syria's Independence Day), Capucci said "President Bashar al-Assad's decisions and directives were appeasing on all levels," expressing pride in Syria's leadership and its ...
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Geithner reassures investors...Heavy fighting in Misrata...Grete Waitz dies
9&10 News
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's government has approved the lifting of the country's state of emergency -- which has been in effect for nearly 50 years. The move meets a key demand of anti-government protesters. But the government is also warning demonstrators ...
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CRI Hourly News (updated at 09:00 2011/04/19)
CRIENGLISH.com
Thousands of protesters have turned out for the funeral of 8 protesters killed in recent clashes in Syria , and are continuing to demand the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. Assad has pledged reforms, including lifting the country's 48-year-old ...
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Tuesday's papers: Gradual reforms underway and illicit gains cases
Al-Masry Al-Youm
In regional coverage, protests in Syria against al-Assad's regime dominate the news. Yesterday, 20 people were shot dead, reports Al-Shorouk. Al-Shorouk also addresses a WikiLeak cable published by The Washington Post that alleges the US funded ...
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Dictators' wives: Power behind the throne?
Telegraph.co.uk
Asma al-Assad spent her childhood in Britain but became First Lady of Syria in 2000. Her father, Fawaz Akhras, was a consultant cardiologist working in London and she was born in Acton, west London, in 1975. She graduated from King's College, London, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Syria: Emergency Law Lifted as Protests Continue · Global Voices
By Jillian C. York
There were mixed feelings in Syria today as President Bashar Al-Assad announced an end to the emergency law that has been in place in the country since 1963. The country has seen weeks of protests, many of which have been met with ...
Global Voices - http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Palestinian Pundit: Bashar al-Assad's strategy in Syria is self ...
By Tony
Disinformation of that kind might have worked years ago when the state had total control over the media, but today its absurdity is far too obvious...... Considering how far Syria lags behind – it doesn't even approach the limited ...
Palestinian Pundit - http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/
Syria to lift decades-old emergency laws
State news agency SANA said the cabinet ratified draft legislation "to end the state of emergency in Syria." President Bashar Assad must still sign the ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
Syria's President Orders Release Of Demonstrators
Robert Siegel talks with Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group about his recent trip to Syria. In Syria today, President Bashar al-Assad made an ...
www.npr.org/.../syrias-president-orders-release-of-demonstrat...
Special Report: Inside Al-Assad's Syria today | Caravan
Special Report: Inside Al-Assad's Syria today. Features · Lauren E. Bohn - Assistant Editor of The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. Saturday, April 9th, 2011 ...
academic.aucegypt.edu/.../special-report-inside-al-assad’s-syria...
Syria aims to ease unrest with release of detained protesters
Protests erupted in Syria a month ago and have steadily increased, with tens of thousands calling for sweeping political reforms from Assad's authoritarian ...
www.boston.com/.../syria_aims_to_ease_unrest_with_release_...
Assad says Syria to lift emergency law - TODAY News - TODAY.com
Syria's president says he expects the government to lift the country's decades- old emergency laws next week.
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42622415/ns/today-today_news/
Syria Today | 7 April 2011
Today President Assad dismissed the governor of Homs, Mohamed Eiad Ghazal, and issued a decree granting Syrian nationality to Syrian Kurds, reports SANA, ...
www.syria-today.com/index.php/.../14887-7-april-2011
3 killed at Syrian protest after Assad vows reform - USATODAY.com
Gunmen opened fire during a funeral for a slain anti-government protester Sunday , killing at least three people on a day when tens of thousands of people ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-04-17-syria.htm
UK Indymedia - Syria Today 04 13 2011
Syria Today 04 13 2011. IMEMC Audio Department | 13.04.2011 12:29 ... The popular uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad is still spreading. ...
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/04/477592.html
Assad to address new Syria government - Today's world - People Forum
People Forum President Bashar al-Assad will address Saturday the new Syrian government, which was unveiled this week, a senior official said as protests ...
www.peopleforum.cn/viewthread.php?tid=87175&extra...
Twitter / PA Bashar al-Assad: People of Syria, today is ...
People of Syria, today is a holy day.. it is the day of Juma prayer, let's not waste this time on protests.
twitter.com/Plaid_alAssad/status/56355477830905856
Shiloh Musings: Syria's Assad, The Further Away The Better!
Syria's Assad, The Further Away The Better! ... Israel to destroy it and the fact that Syria had used it for terror attacks on Israel, what is Syria today? ...
shilohmusings.blogspot.com/.../syrias-assad-further-away-bette...
Syria hit by new protests as Assad pledges reform, IBN Live News
... Apr 17 (AFP) Regime supporters broke up two rallies in southern Syria today, ... by President Bashar al-Assad yesterday promising to end emergency rule, ...
ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/syria.../651881.html
Foreign Secretary statement on the speech made by President Assad ...
Subscription only content source icon Recommended link; Foreign Secretary statement on the speech made by President Assad of Syria today ...
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Syria protesters call for freedom after Assad pledge - Stabroek ...
But the head of Germany's intelligence service was quoted today as saying the ... Syria's Assad vows to lift emergency law by next week -April 16, 2011 ...
www.stabroeknews.com/.../syria-protesters-call-for-freedom-af...
Feedstep.com - Syria protests sweep into capital, defying Assad
Reuters - Protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad swept into the ... reports large anti-government protests are occurring across Syria today. ...
www.feedstep.com/rel_1678107_Syrians_turn_out_in_large_...
Report: Syria's Assad Orders Release Of Detainees - Radio Free ...
Syria's state media today said that President Bashar al-Assad has ordered the release of all detainees arrested in a recent wave of protests, except those ...
www.rferl.org/content/syria_assad_release.../3557719.html
Assad faces toughest test from Syrian unrest | Al-Masry Al-Youm ...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad trained to be an ophthalmologist because, he said, eye surgery involves few emergencies and not much blood is spilled.
www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/401782



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