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To: LindyBill who wrote (102080)2/24/2005 5:51:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793817
 
Syrian weakness poses a long-term threat to two other Sunni-majority Arab states besides Jordan, namely Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Each, in its own way, has deep problems with Damascus

But Assad is not a Sunni. He is an Alawite, a creed that the Sunnis consider heretical.