In the Lion's Den_ An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle With Syria - Andrew Tabler [124]
and Islam, 131, 133–34
and Israel, 48, 148, 150, 159–60, 176, 206–8, 222–23, 229–30, 237, 241–42
and Lebanon, xix, 13, 81, 83–85, 154, 206
marriage of, 36
and protest crackdowns, xviii, 151, 233–36, 239
reelection of, 179–82, 186
and reform, 4, 8, 26, 30, 66, 69, 88, 93, 107, 117, 160, 183–84, 236–37, 239
speech at Baath Conference, 95–100
and Syria’s nuclear program, 202, 219–20, 241
trip to China by, 70–74
and the US, xvii–xx, 13, 41–42, 48, 66, 83–88, 118, 159, 174–77, 187–189, 212, 218–19, 223, 228–33, 237–40, 242
Assad, Bushra al-, 110
Assad, Hafez al-, 4, 6, 14–16, 19, 39–40, 51, 57, 72–73, 100, 106–7, 110, 161, 179, 212, 219, 231, 234
Assad, Maher al-, 111–12, 117, 235–36
Assad, Rifaat al-, 19
Associated Press, 99
associations law, 36, 37, 50–51, 57
Assyrian Democratic Organization, 108–9, 141
Attar, Abdul Ghani, 182, 205
Attar, Abdul Rahman, 182
Attar, Ali Reza Sheikh, 199
Azm, Amr al-, 53, 56
Azm, Sadiq Jalal al-, 53
Baath Day, 133
Baath Party, 5–6, 8, 43, 57, 81, 86–91, 93, 119, 124–26, 133–34, 145, 226
conference of, 94–108, 117–18, 231
Baker, James, 15, 161
Barak, Ehud, 15
Battat, Joseph, 61, 73
Bayanouni, Ali Sadreddin al-, 90–91, 144
Bayda, Rola, 20, 25–26, 32, 34, 38–39, 44–46, 48–49, 55–56, 59–61, 64–67, 71–74
BBC World Service, 100
Beirut-Damascus/Damascus-Beirut Declaration, 146
Ben Ali, Zine el-Abidine, 232–33
Ben-Yishai, Ron, 193
Berri, Nabih, 87, 205
Bashir, Sheikh Nawaf al-, 108
Biden, Joe, 173
Bilal, Mohsen, 148, 168–69, 191
bin Laden, Osama, 21–22, 197
Blair, Tony, xvii, 148
Blanford, Nicholas, 111, 190
blue line (1949 cease fire line on Lebanon’s southern border), 149
Bolton, John, 43–45, 193
Bunni, Anwar al-, 146, 177
Burns, William, 228
Bush, George W., administration, xvii, xix, xxi, 25, 30, 41, 43–44, 49–50, 54, 62–63, 66, 83–84, 87, 128, 132, 141, 145–46, 148, 151–52, 158, 160–61, 163–67, 169, 173, 175–78, 181, 184, 194, 201–3, 210–11, 217–18, 220, 232, 235
Butters, Andrew, 168–69
Caldwell, William, 177
Camp David Accords, 7, 12–13, 22
Canada, 141, 240
Carter, Jimmy, 217
Cedar Revolution, 80–81
Center for American Progress (CAP), 227
Cheney, Dick, xvii
Chilean embassy attack, 121–22, 136
China, 10, 62, 70–74, 240
Chirac, Jacques, 83
Christians, 5, 79, 137, 161–62, 178, 234
Christian Science Monitor, 99, 190
Circassians, 5
Clinton, Hillary, 132, 173, 221, 228–29
Clinton, William (Bill), 15, 217
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC), 195
Commercial Bank of Syria (CBS), 63, 225
Committee for the Revival of Civil Society, 90, 140
communism, 7–8, 140, 148. See also Marxism
Communist Labor Party (Syria), 140
Conoco Oil, 16–17
Corbin, Michael, 165–66, 190
Correctionist Movement, 6
Croatia, 240
Daily Star, 61
Damascus Community School (DCS), 189, 216
Damascus Declaration, 90, 108, 113,
140–46, 152, 178, 181, 209, 231, 235
Damascus Islamic Studies Center, 131
Damascus Spring, 4, 32, 49, 51, 90–91, 235
Danish embassy riots, 120–24, 129, 134, 137, 152
Dardari, Abdullah, 108, 183, 189, 224
Dar Emar, 52
Dib Zaitoun, Mohammed, 235
Dine, Tom, 209
discussion forums, 4, 36–37, 51, 57, 90–91
Djerejian, Edward P., 14, 212
Doha Accord, 213
Druze, 5, 79, 180, 234
Dulles, John Foster, 189
Economist, The, 99
Egypt, 6–8, 12, 17, 20–24, 37–38, 42, 48, 50–51, 129, 137, 150, 230–33
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, 12
Ellison, Keith, 174
emergency law, 31, 106–7, 138
Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, 207, 236
European Union, the (EU), 19, 124, 156, 208
Executive Order 13460, 239
Fadel, Nibras al-, 93
Fairouz, 87
Family Council, 60
Fatah, 129
Feltman, Jeffrey, 221–22
Ford, Robert, 228–29
Forward magazine, 167, 210, 217
France, 71, 81, 84, 150, 156, 207, 208, 237, 240
France Soir, 128
Free National Party, 90, 140
French embassy, 128
Fulbright program, 166
Fund for Integrated Rural Development of Syria (FIRDOS), 32–34, 37–38, 45–47, 52–53, 57–58, 69–70
Future Party, 108, 155
Gaza, 22, 35, 221
Geneva Summit, 15, 207
Germany, 26, 84, 156, 183, 240
Ghadry, Farid, 141
Ghazaleh, Rustom, 82, 114