Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Bashar at the Ba'ath party congress: Stay the Course

Syria Leader Looks Set to Stay the Course: "Some analysts and officials argued that Assad had deliberately kept his speech vague and short to avoid the appearance of dictatorship. He was reluctant to make sweeping declarations until after the week's discussions, they said.

'He wants the Baathists and candidates here in this congress to say what they want to do and what they believe and what they are thinking,' said Imad Shuebi, a political science professor at Damascus University. 'He doesn't want to say everything. He really is a liberal man.'"

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