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Google News: Diplomatic tit-for-tat betrays a lack of imagination over Syria
[The Week UK] - Back in the 1970s, similar gangs of militias and thugs – shabiha means 'ghost' – were conjured up by Rifaat al-Assad, the hard man younger brother of President Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father. They were used in the brutal suppression of an uprising by
Guardian: Sri Lankan president cancels speech in London over protest fears
[The Guardian] - "It is likely Assad [Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president] learned some lessons from the way the international community tolerated [many more] civilian casualties in Sri Lanka. What lessons will Assad learn from seeing how quickly the international
Guardian: Ghosts of Syria: diehard militias who kill in the name of Assad
[The Guardian] - These early shabiha thrived under the wary eye of President Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, and for good reason. In 1980s, with Syrian troops occupying Lebanon and its economy crippled by goods shortages, smuggling goods across the Lebanese border
Turkey, Israel, Syria: A painful neighborhood
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[Hurriyet Daily News (press release)] - Well, those words were actually in reference to another painful experience during the 1980s and 90s, when the PKK's headquarters, and its leader Abdullah Öcalan, were based in Syria under Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's late father.
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