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From: geode00	8/9/2006 11:44:23 PM
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It was Syria that had kept Hizbollah in check Newsweek Posted online: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 at 0000 hrs... Freed from Syria’s restraint, Hizbollah might soon be hijacking planes and kidnapping people again. If backed by Iranian radicals, it could even go further. Western diplomats may now seek a cease-fire and send in international peacekeepers. Israel may create an ethnically clean ‘‘buffer zone’’ along its northern border. But does anyone really believe the violence will stop? Not likely. Bashar al-Assad especially fears the sort of crisis his father confronted in February 1982, when an insurrection backed by the Muslim Brotherhood broke out in Hamah. Assad senior contained it by flattening the town with heavy artillery. Combing through the rubble, the Syrians were astonished to find that the rebels’ weapons had come from Lebanon. With no strong central government, it had become a failed state, an open arms bazaar and a haven for terrorists the world over. Today Syria sees history repeating itself, only worse. (Baer is a former CIA officer) ROBERT BAER indianexpress.com

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