BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun April 4, 2006
http://www.nysun.com/article/30303

CAIRO, Egypt - America is open to widening its contacts among opponents of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad following the setting up of an alliance between a former Syrian vice president and the country's militant Muslim Brotherhood.
The leader of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood, Ali Sadreddine Bayanouni, met with and formed a pact with the former Syrian vice president, Abdul Halim Khaddam, at a little-noticed conference in Brussels on March 16 and 17.

Syria's ruling party solidifies its power: "They say they have a fixed time period to finish off the opposition"
By Michael Slackman
NYT
5\4\2006
Just months ago, under intense international pressure to ease its stranglehold on neighboring Lebanon, the Syrian government was talking about diluting the ruling Baath party's grip on power at home and opening the way for a multiparty system.Things have moved in the opposite direction.Syrian officials are aggressively silencing domestic political opposition while accommodating religious conservatives to shore up support across the country.The security forces have detained human rights workers and opposition leaders, and in some cases their families.They have barred travel abroad for political conferences and shut down a human rights center financed by the European Union.And the government has delivered a stern message to the national media, demanding that it promote - not challenge - the official agenda.The leadership's aggressive actions reflect a sense of confidence spawned by seismic shifts in the region in recent months, especially the Hamas victory in Palestinian elections, political paralysis in Lebanon and the intense difficulties facing the United States in trying to stabilize Iraq and derail Iran's drive toward nuclear power.The detentions, press crackdowns, restrictions on travel and the overall effort to crush dissent also are a response to a fragile domestic political climate and concern over a growing opposition movement abroad."I may not be keen on early morning arrests, but this regime was being threatened," Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Dardari, a London-educated technocrat charged with steering Syria's economic overhaul, said in an interview.

By Willard Payne
4\4\2006

In an interview over Turkey's state television TRT1 Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul announced that both Damascus and Tehran have pledged to cooperate with Ankara in confronting their respective rebellious Kurdish populations, which would help Turkey in its own war against the Kurdish armed group PKK (Turkey's Kurdish Workers Party).

Aleppous
Mustafa Hamido
4\3\2006

I was a witness.

By G. Jefferson Price III
March 28, 2006
From the Baltimore Sun

Much is said these days about how awful are Syria and the regime of Bashar Assad.
The clamor against Syria reached a high point 13 months ago after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Aleppous
25\3\2006
Mustafa Hamido


Dr.

DAMASCUS, 24 March (IRIN)
Reuters

The Syrian Human Rights Organisation (SHRO) condemned the arrest of several opposition figures in Damascus earlier this week.
According to an SHRO spokesman, the arrests come amidst government attempts to quell a recent surge of opposition activity.
"We're seeing a phenomenon of greater repression of opposition figures in Damascus," said the SHRO's Bassem Ishak.

By Mustafa Hamido
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Aleppous

What really the opposition wants?? It is a mysterious question needs a serious answer.

DAMASCUS, 21 Mar 2006 (IRIN) ,NY Times
When Sabah’s husband left her in Syria and returned to his native Saudi Arabia, he didn’t just leave his teenage daughter without a father.

Are they so crazy to do that or it is a betrayal task as they did in early 80s??

Mustafa hamido
19\3\2006
Aleppous
Exclusive

WE can't exclude the Thursday's meet between Khadam and The Muslims brotherhoods in Syria from what we are living in the Middle East.

Aleppous
15\3\2006

A new report of international probe commity in Harair assasination will be launched later this week.

AME info
13\3\2006

On February 8, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad issued a legislative decree nominating the members of the Syrian Securities and Exchange Commission (SSEC), whose task will be to draft a stock exchange Law and overview the set-up of the future Damascus Stock Exchange.

Mustafa Hamido
Aleppous
Damascus
12\3\2006

Syria has released today a free media city.

Aleppous
11\3\2006
Mustafa Hamido
The Chief Editor

It is a kind of conflict between two choices ,resistance or surrender.This is the conclusion of what is ging on in the middle east , however, the main problem is that who is resisting is the Shiite while the sunni's are monitoring what is going on ,palying with Petro-Dollars ,investing in American and Israeli's companies.The problems and the local conflicts in the middle east are basing on the historical problem between sunni's and shiite.Saudi Arabia which claims that it represents the Sunni's in the world is using its fortune for weaking the opposites.

Aleppous
8\3\2006
Mustafa Hamido
The Chief Editor

are we living really in syria? this is the main question which will raise directly after a short trip in syrian high class areas.Going into the centres of syrian cities, this questin will solve itself.