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Politics : Islam, The Message
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (106)11/4/2001 2:45:11 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (2) of 758
 
Zeev, here is Iqbal's comments on Asad in Syria and the shelling of Hama:

Message 16604688

Starting on February 2, 1982 and lasting 27 days, President Asad ordered the shelling of Hama, one of Syria's major cities some 150 miles north of Damascus. According to the Syrian Human Rights Committee that operates outside of Syria a third of the city was completely destroyed. Some 30,000 to 40,000 civilians were killed. Another 15,000 were never accounted for. Why?

Only a few months earlier on October 6, 1981, members of the Muslim Brotherhood had assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. The Brotherhood had been founded during the 1930's in Egypt by Hassan Al-Banna. He allegedly was killed on orders of Egypt's General Gamal Abdul-Nasser. Sadat too was a general and so was Asad. The destroyed district of Hama had become a major center of the Brotherhood in Syria. Clearly Asad struck massively and brutally to prevent the same from happening to him. The present President uncle Rifa'at was the chief enforcer of the Hama massacre. Yet in later years he began to drift towards the Brotherhood. He grew a beard and went regularly to mosque. But this time Hafez decided the Brotherhood could be useful rather than dangerous and himself approached them. He showed his changed attitudes by having Rifa'at placed under house arrest in their home town Latakia on Mediterranean shores.
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