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Syria and jihadists; Do all roads lead to Damascus?(OPED)
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The Washington Times
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October 10, 2003
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Byline: Walid Phares, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Was Syria behind the attacks in Israel? To most Middle East experts, the answer is not about Syria's support for jihad against the Jewish state. That is cast in stone. Instead, inquiry is about Damascus' practical role in the ongoing suicide attacks and related activities by Palestinian radicals at least since the al-Aqsa intifada of September 2000. The answer is yes and it is not a secret.
For years, if not decades, the Syrian Ba'ath Party has adopted an ideological attitude toward the peace process as a whole. Hafez Assad, shrewd and implacable dictator of Syria, has bypassed all opportunities to reach an ...
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