EFTA00708199.txt

"From: Tede Rod-Larsen To: ' <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: Syria articles (WP, NYT) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:58:53 +0000"

"From: Fabrice Aidan <[email protected]> To: Tele Rod-Larsen Sent: Wed Mar 30 08:04:39 2011 Subject: Fw: Syria articles (WF, NYT)"

"Fabrice Aidan United Nations"

"Assad's departure could lead to a break in Syria's support for Hezbollah"

"Ehud Ya'ari, a commentator on Arab affairs for Israel's Channel 2 television station"

"People would very much like to see Assad gone and his whole regime replaced"

"A different regime is not naturally an ally of Hezbollah and the Iranians"

"Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ... has met with Mr. Assad several times in the past two years"

"more than 60 Syrians had already been massacred by Mr. Assad's security forces"

"his wife, Asma, born in Britain to Syrian parents, was a banker at J. P. Morgan"

"So far more than 60 people have been slaughtered by his security forces for taking to the streets to shout slogans such as we want only freedom"

"As recently as last November, Kerry said after meeting Assad: I remain absolutely convinced that there is an opportunity to have a different relations"

"weapons supplier to Hezbollah in Lebanon... most of Hezbollah's weapons are covertly transferred by truck from aims depots near Damascus to storage fa"

"weapons supplier to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip."

"David W. Lesch, a professor of Middle East history at Trinity University"

"President Assad one last chance at being something more than simply Hafez al-Assad's son."

"Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's cabinet put it, We know Assad."

"Kerry told me that he had contacted senior Syrian officials to demand an end to the killing."