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of history. It has in it both peril and promise, the possibility of prison but also the possibility of freedom. Fouad Ajami is a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Co-Chair of the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. Ankle

s and the mountain villages and coastal towns that make up the Alawite strongholds. The violence in the Syrian uprising has been most pronounced in Horns, the country's third-largest city, because of its explosive demographics -- two-thirds Sunni, one-quarter Alawite, one- tenth Christian. Sectarian

at his word. In a battered Syria, a desperate people await America's help and puzzle over its leader's passivity. Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-chairman of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. Article 3. NYT After a Year, Deep Divisions Hob

ange of groups opposing Mr. Assad, the council has yet to seriously address melding itself with the increasingly independent internal alliances in Horns and other cities across Syria trapped in an uneven battle for survival, they said, warning that the council runs the risk of being supplanted. "Th