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28. American and Israeli sources later said that they didn’t push the nuclear issue immediately so that Assad would not overreact and launch a retaliatory strike on Israel.
29. General David H. Petraeus, “Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq,” September 10–11, 2007.
30. Richard A. Oppel, “Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.,” New York Times, November 22, 2007.
8. WEATHERING THE STORM
1. Nicholas Blanford, “Hizballah Mourns Its Shadowy Hero,” Time, Feburary 13, 2008.
2. Ibrahim Hamidi, “No More Secrets,” Syria Today, March 2008.
3. Andrew Tabler, “Speculation Rages over Imad Moughniyah Assassination,” Eighth Gate (blog), February 13, 2008, http://www.andrewtabler.com/2008/02/speculation-rages-overimad-moughniyah.html.
4. “Iran Joins Syria in Hunt for Killers of Militant,” Associated Press, February 15, 2008.
5. “An Official Information Source Denies Reports on the Formation of a Joint Committee to Investigate Moghnia Assassination,” Syrian Arab News Agency, February 16, 2008.
6. Andrew Tabler, “The U.S. Can Help Tackle Syrian Corruption,” Daily Star, July 29, 2008.
7. “Syria: From Isolation to Acceptance,” roundtable presentation at the Henry L. Stimson Center, April 24, 2008.
8. “Syria’s Covert Nuclear Reactor at Al Kibar,” Central Intelligence Agency, April 24, 2008.
9. Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic, press release, April 24, 2008.
10. Fay Ferguson, “Radioactive Allegations,” Syria Today, May 2008.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. For a summary of the dispute, see “Perhaps It Was the Genie in the Lamp?,”
14. Imad Moustapha, interview by the author and Robert Malley, February 2008.
15. Nicholas Blanford, “Spectre of War Returns to Haunt Lebanon,” The Times, May 8, 2008.
16. “Hezbollah Takes Over West Beirut,” BBC News, May 9, 2008.
17. Ibid.
18. “Israel Announces Indirect Peace Talks with Syria,” DPA, May 21, 2008.
19. “Official: Latest Israel–Syria Talks End in ‘Positive Atmosphere,’” June 16, 2008, http://www.haaretz.com/.
20. Steven Erlanger and Katrin Bennhold, “Sarkozy Helps to Bring Syria Out of Isolation,” New York Times, July 14, 2008.
21. For another account of Syrian coverage of the event, see Andrew Lee Butters, “The Syrians Take Paris,” Time, July 14, 2008.
22. “No Comment,” Euronews Television, July 14, 2008, recovered from YouTube as “Cat-and-Mouse between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Paris” on August 20, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY5Z4OKq28o.
23. “Syria’s Assad Stirs Controversy at France’s Bastille Day,” AFP, July 14, 2008.
24. “IAEA Team to Inspect Syria’s Alleged Nuclear Site,” DPA, June 22, 2008.
25. This paragraph is a summary of Radwan Ziadeh’s chapter on Syria in Freedom of Association in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: 60 Years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Copenhagen: Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, December 2008), pages 44–47.
26. Brookings Institution, “Engaging Syria: New Negotiations, Old Challenges,” July 23, 2008, http://www.brookings.edu/–/media/Files/events/2008/0723_syria/0723_syria.pdf.
27. Ibid.
28. Sami Moubayed, “Driving a Truck Through Syrian Loopholes,” Asia Times, August 6, 2008.
EPILOGUE: THE EXPECTATIONS GAP AND THE ADVENT OF THE ARAB SPRING
Portions of this chapter originally appeared in PolicyWatch (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateI05.php?&newActiveSubNav=PolicyWatch/PeaceWatch&activeSubNavLink=templateI05.php%3F&newActiveNav=analysis), an online publication of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
1. “’US Helicopter Raid’ Inside Syria,” BBC News, October 27, 2008.
2. “Syrian Witness Reacts to US Raid,” BBC News, October 27, 2008.
3. Albert Aji, “U.S. Special Forces Launch Rare Attack Inside Syria,” Associated Press, October 26, 2008.
4. Eric Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti, “Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries,” New York Times, November 9, 2008.
5. Sami Moubayed, “American Dream Expelled from Syria,” Asia Times, November 4, 2008.
6. Despite the fact that Moubayed published a denial on the