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he Middle East for so long that nothing, it seems — no amount of extraordinary change — can silence them. After the successful revolts in Cairo and Tunis, the slanders abated. Soon, however, the old messages depicting the Middle East as extreme, fundamentalist, and hostile to democracy began to re-in
cape the army's siege, the situation in Syria is undoubtedly growing desperate. However, we have not yet seen the red flags that would indicate the al Assad regime is in imminent danger of collapse. The reasons are fairly straightforward. The al Assad clan belongs to Syria's Alawite minority, who only 4
al-Khatib - comprising a dialogue with President al-Assad based on the principle of the regime's departure-
low on February 6* when leftist opposition alliance founder and head of the Democratic Patriots party Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home in Tunis. The event drew thousands of protestors to the streets, clamoring against the leading Islamist Ennahda party. The events heighten the Islamist-secula
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029689 →the Middle East for so long that nothing, it seems - no amount of extraordinary change - can silence them. After the successful revolts in Cairo and Tunis, the slanders abated. Soon, however, the old messages depicting the Middle East as extreme, fundamentalist, and hostile to democracy began to re-insi
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030160 →escape the army's siege, the situation in Syria is undoubtedly growing desperate. However, we have not yet seen the red flags that would indicate the al Assad regime is in imminent danger of collapse. The reasons are fairly straightforward. The al Assad clan belongs to Syria's Alawite minority, who only 40
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030163 →Entities connected to both Tunis and al Assad

Barack Obama
PERSON
Cairo
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United States
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Tunisia
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Yemen
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Tehran
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Middle East
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Tripoli
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Saddam Hussein
PERSON
North Africa
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Fatah
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Vietnam
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