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"his younger brother and chief enforcer, Rifaat"

"the death in a car accident of his oldest son, Bassel"

"settled on his son Bashar, the eye doctor, as his successor"

"Bashar, son of Hafez Assad"

"a Sudanese man guilty of stabbing to death a Christian woman from Ethiopia"

"Russia has signed a $550 million contract to sell Syria 36 combat jets"

"the Baath... had been conceived in the interwar years in Paris's Latin Quarter by two talented young men from Damascus: the Greek Orthodox Michel Afla"

"the Baath... had been conceived in the interwar years in Paris's Latin Quarter by two talented young men from Damascus: the Greek Orthodox Michel Afla"

"he married well, a London-born upper-bourgeois young woman from a Sunni family of Homs, Asma al-Akhras"

"Henry Kissinger... negotiated with Assad in the aftermath of the October War of 1973"

"the case was then retried under the Hanafi school and the man was sentenced to death"

"in Moscow Vladimir Putin won't abandon the son of the Soviet Union's favorite Arab tyrant, Hafez Assad"

"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week rejected any talk of new U.N. sanctions or arms embargo on Syria"

"This was the party that widened the horizons of Hafez Assad"

"The grim work was done by the ruler's brother, Rifaat, who took the Stalinist purges as a model to emulate... In February 1982, those earlier skirmish"

"He went into Lebanon in 1976... He ruled Lebanon by remote control"

"From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen < IIMI>"