The Assad brothers and Shawkat are “the trinity in charge of the country,” said Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syria expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
Tag: The Assad Regime
SYRIAN PRESIDENT FACES INTERNATIONAL AND INTERNAL PRESSURE
A mention in News Hour Online:
“Bashar [Assad] is being asked to get rid of the old guard and create a new government,” Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian activist and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said at a press briefing. “This is what is expected of him. It’s the only way he can cooperate with the [Mehlis] investigation.”
The General & the Heretic!
Reading the name of my chief interrogator, AKA General Dashing, all over the “deleted” sections in the Mehlis Report, I find it hard to believe that such a figure found time to interrogate someone like me in the midst of all these developments. Was I really considered such a major threat? Or was he in the habit of interrogating everybody? Continue reading “The General & the Heretic!”
Hope & Folly!
The Awaited Report is finally out. I shall not attempt to analyze or dissect it. Many, with much larger analytical skills and expertise than me, will be doing that on their blogs and in their articles. Suffice it to say, however, that all the necessary ingredients for a UNSC Resolution against Syria are there. It remains to be seen, however, whether the US and France have managed to gather enough support in the Council to pass such a resolution. Will China and Russia cooperate? Or will they push to give their not-so-precious lion-cub another chance at trying to make things right? Continue reading “Hope & Folly!”
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 