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To: stockman_scott who wrote (35941)	8/5/2002 12:07:24 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Syria, which is still on the State Department's terrorism watch list, has nevertheless been avid to enlist in Washington's war against terrorists associated with Islamist movements in the Arab world. The secular, pan-Arabist Baathist regime in Damascus has a fearsome history of suppressing its own Islamic Brotherhood by force. Twenty years ago Hafez Assad, the deceased father of Syria's current ruler, Bashar Assad, massacred some 20,000 people in the town of Hama in response to a rebellion by the Islamic Brotherhood. From an Assad perspective, the United States is now enlisting in Syria's war on terrorism. This is so absurd I don't know how to answer it. Syria has no war on terrorism; it has open support of terrorism. A dozen terrorist organization have offices in Damascus. Sheikh Nasrallah of Hizbullah is practically running Bashar Assad's government. Assad is supplying both Hizbullah and Iraq, quite openly, reversing his father's policies. The most the US has gotten out of Assad is a few fake promises to cool it when Hizbullah began shelling Israel last spring. How can anyone with sense even bother to listen to the conclusions when the premises are so devoid of fact?