Does Saudi Arabia support Baathist resistance in Iraq?
The Baathist rule under Saddam Hussein kept anti-Christian violence under control
but subjected some to"relocation programmes.
In 1968, he assisted his cousin,
General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, in the Baathist takeover of Iraq.
If the Lebanese succeed in winning their independence,
it could spell the end of Bashar Assad and the Baathist regime in Damascus.
The curriculum taught is the revised version by the Turkey-based Syrian opposition government,
which removed most content that Syria's Baathist government had included.
Both are Middle Eastern
males of Catholic Christian heritage who left Baathist dictatorships for Western cities Auchi from Iraq to London,
Rezko from Syria to Chicago.
With terrorist offices open
and his regime insouciant, Assad shows a risky contempt for the administration that just overthrew his Baathist neighbor to the east.