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first Arab kingdom, the first stop the desert warriors from the Hejaz made when they came out of the Arabian Peninsula. In the telling, the Prophet Muhammad favored this realm. He had seen Damascus from the hills above it, and the fabled Ghouta, the gardens and orchards that once circled this city. The
But he was then in the midst of a vicious sectarian war against the Muslim Brotherhood, with their power in the souks and the mosques of Hama and Aleppo and Damascus. For the Sunni artisans in the warrens of these old cities, the presidency of a peasant—and an Alawite peasant at that, hailing from a
ts there= On MSNBC, Karen Finney said the story exonerated the Obama administration because it found that a fake Hollywood video mocking the Prophet Muhammad did, in fact, help spark the attack. =solationists on the left and the right argued that any military action—particularly one carried out by the Uni
An A= Qaeda affiliate group, aided by foreign fighters, battles with seven differ=nt homegrown Syrian rebel groups for control of the region around Aleppo, Syri=. The Iranian Embassy in Beirut is bombed. Mohamad Chatah, an enormously dece=t former Lebanese finance minister, is blown up after criticizi
nto the city's southern outskirts, paramilitary groups were said to have massed in Alawi-populated northern suburbs. The city centers of Damascus and Aleppo, however, remained relatively quiet, as the government appeared to be organizing rallies of its own supporters, with activists claiming that efforts
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030084 →stian, Muslim, and Zoroastrian elements. Their leading theologian, Abdullah al- Khasibi, who died in 957, proclaimed the divinity of Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, whom other Shiites revere but do not worship. Like many Shiites influenced by ancient Gnostic teachings that predate Islam,
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030086 →Entities connected to both Muhammad and Aleppo

Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Damascus
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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Hillary Clinton
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Jeffrey Epstein
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White House
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Jerusalem
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Yemen
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Marc Rich
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Cairo
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Condoleezza Rice
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