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To: Chas. who wrote (7615)	11/21/2006 7:41:21 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 15987

Assad has, it appears, several intelligence groups within his fragile government that may be Politically overly ambitious and Assad is kept busy trying to manage these factions. So as usual in the world of Arab and Middle Eastern Politics we never really know what is going on until it happens... Damn.. you're on a roll, aren't you now!! Amazing thing was, after I posted my last response to you, I was dwelling over some of the very same issues you conveyed in this post. But I couldn't find the words to convey it without dedicating several paragraphs to it.. And here you do it beautifully!! Yeah.. any of these totalitarian regimes are like those Russian Nesting dolls. You think you understand what you're seeing, and then you find another entity pursuing its own agenda inside.. and so on. What was it Churchill called the USSR.. A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma?? Seems to be the case with most of these totalitarian regimes. It certainly was with Saddam. Few people really understood just how closely involved his intelligence service was with Al Qai'da (or at least Zawahiri's Egytian Islamic Jihad). Hawk

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