Khaddam says forming exile government (Syria)

[Scurrilous]

Former Syrian vice president tells German weekly Der Spiegel he believes Syrian President Bashar Assad would be forced from power this year

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3200231,00.html

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"Former Syrian Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam, a fierce critic of President Bashar Assad, told a German magazine he was forming a government in exile and believed Assad would be forced from power this year.

Khaddam, who now lives in Paris, told the weekly Der Spiegel on Saturday that Assad was facing growing pressure from economic problems at home and the international investigation into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

"His fall has already begun. I don't think his regime will last out this year," Khaddam, who accuses Assad of ordering Hariri's murder, said.

The former vice president, for 30 years a confidant of Assad's late father, Syrian leader Hafez Assad, left the government in June.
He has been accused of treason and expelled from the ruling Baath Party after a series of verbal attacks on the president."

[pinerow]

1. Rut roh...

This sounds like the Iraqi national Congress...History repeating itself already...:wtf:

[HereSince1628]

2. Exactly, expect the Weekly Standard to put forward a leadership

If I was in Syria I'd be thinking about building a bomb shelter and stashing every dried food I could lay my hands on.

[daleo]

3. A Chalabi in the making.

But does Bush have the army to "elect" him?

[occuserpens]

4. Syrian grave for international law?

2006-01-14 Syrian grave for international law?