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3. Sami Moubayed, “Allied to, Created by or Friends of the Ba’ath,” Gulf News, March 7, 2006. Moubayed predicted that a multiparty law would be issued within a month. As of mid-2011, the law had yet to be enacted.
4. Michel Kilo, interview with the author, Damascus, Syria, March 24, 2006.
5. “Michel Kilo Detained,” Syria Monitor, May 15, 2006, http://syriamonitor.typepad.com/news/2006/05/michel_kilo_det.html.
6. NO VOICE LOUDER THAN THE CRY OF BATTLE
Portions of this chapter originally appeared in the Institute of Current World Affairs member newsletter.
1. “Mic Picks Up Bush: ‘Get Hezbollah to Stop This S***,”’ Times Online, July 17, 2006.
2. Helene Cooper and David E. Sanger, “U.S. Plan Seeks to Wedge Syria Away from Iran,” New York Times, July 23, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/washington/23diplo.html.
3. Seymour Hersh, “Watching Lebanon: Washington’s Interests in Israel’s War,” The New Yorker, August 21, 2006.
7. PLAYING WITH FIRE IN EASTERN SYRIA
1. George W. Bush, “President’s Address to the Nation,” White House, Washington, DC, January 10, 2009, http://georgewbushwhitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html.
2. “Iran, Forerunner in Syria Investment Among Non-Arab States,” Islamic Republic News Agency, January 24, 2007, http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0701242933180528.htm.
3. For a partial account of this meeting, see Andrew Lee Butters, “Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner,” Time, February 8, 2007.
4. Andrew Tabler, “The Shiitization of Syria?,” Executive, June 2009.
5. Grand mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic Ahmed al-Hassoun, interview with the author, March 2007.
6. Andrew Tabler, “Catalytic Converters,” New York Times Magazine, April 29, 2007.
7. Barack Obama, interview on MSNBC, January 11, 2007. Viewed via YouTube, July 10, 2009.
8. Joseph R. Biden Jr., “A Plan to Hold Iraq Together,” Washington Post, August 24, 2006.
9. Elizabeth Williamson, “Pelosi Plans Trip to Syria Next Week,” Washington Post, March 31, 2007.
10. “Bush: Pelosi Meeting With Syria’s Assad Sends Wrong Signal,” Fox News, April 3, 2007.
11. Hassan Fattah, “Pelosi’s Delegation Presses Syrian Leader on Militants,” New York Times, April 4, 2007.
12. “Pratfall in Damascus,” Washington Post, April 5, 2007.
13. US diplomat, interview with the author, March 2008.
14. CNN newscast, May 3, 2007.
15. Dominic Moran, “Rice–Syrian FM Meet Eclipses Iraq Plan,” International Relations and Security Network (ISN), May 4, 2007.
16. “Syria: Writer Michel Kilo Sentenced,” PEN, May 16, 2007.
17. For another account of the polls, see Hassan Fattah, “Syrian President’s Fortunes Revive for Election,” New York Times, May 27, 2007.
18. “Dialogue with Syria: Opportunity or Ambush?,” Saban Center for Middle East Policy, transcript, page 79; Adam Zagorin, “Syria in Bush’s Cross Hairs,” Time December 19, 2006.
19. Andrew Tabler, “To Help Israel, Help Syria,” New York Times, August 5, 2006.
20. Hugh Naylor, “Tired of Energy Ills, Syrians Doubt the West Is to Blame,” New York Times, August 15, 2007.
21. Nicholas Blanford, “Why Did Israeli Planes Enter Syria?,” Time, September 10, 2007.
22. For an excellent account of statements following the raid, see “06 September 2007 Strike” on GlobalSecurity.org, last modified October 27, 2007.
23. Yoav Stern and Mazal Mualem, “Israel Mum on Any IAF Entry into Syria Airspace,” September 6, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/.
24. Glen Kessler, “Syria–N. Korea Reports Won’t Stop Talks,” Washington Post, September 15, 2007.
25. “Extracting Uranium from Phosphates,” Arms Control Wonk (blog), September 20, 2007, http://armscontrolwonk.com/.
26. “06 September 2007 Airstrike,” GlobalSecurity.org, October 29, 2007, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/070906-airstrike.htm.
27. Ron Ben-Yishai, “Ynet Reporter Visits Site of ‘Syria Operation,’” Yedioth Ahronoth, September 26, 2007, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3453679,00.html. For another account of the visit, see Hugh Naylor, “Syria Tells Journalist Israeli Raid Did Not Occur,” New York Times,