Al-Asad

I assume you would include Al-Asad and Ben Laden in that group.

Your Right Hand Thief 2007

I assure you Ahmadinejad and Al-Asad or viewed as religious leaders much like Ben Laden by "those" who matter.

Your Right Hand Thief 2007

Al-Asad, about 120 miles west of Baghdad, near the Euphrates town of Khan al-Baghdadi

Iraqis resisting US capitulation 2008

Bashshar Al-Asad seems to be falling into an old weapon of his father: extreme patience and diplomatic procrastination.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 As'ad 2008

Another facility is the massive marine base of Al-Asad in Anbar province, where a visiting reporter was recently assured by U.S. soldiers that American troops would be rotating though for at least the next decade.

Barry Lando: The Farcical Debate on Total Withdrawal from Iraq 2008

This visit is to Anbar where he's meeting with some of the militia leaders who used to oppose us meaning used to kill our soldiers: Travelling to Al-Asad Air Base rather than Baghdad gave Bush an opportunity to highlight the dramatic shift in sentiment in Anbar, where former Sunni insurgents have joined with US forces to fight Al-Qaeda.

09/03/2007 2007

This week I learned that the son of Rif`at Al-Asad (read what I have written about him in the archives including about his gift to my father (of an AK 47), and the thuggery and brutality of his forces in Lebanon during the civil war years), Ribal, has set up shop in Tripoli, ostensibly with the support of the Hariri family.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 As'ad 2007

He printed a "news item" about how I "insulted the personality of Hafidh Al-Asad" in a chapter I wrote for a book that came out in the West, about Syrian foreign policy Peace for Lebanon? edited by Deirdre Collings.

Sunday, May 27, 2007 As'ad 2007

I just read that Rif`at Al-Asad is preparing to return to Syria.

Friday, January 06, 2006 As'ad 2006

Before his assassination, George Hawi told AlJazeera TV that Rif`at Al-Asad was behind the assassination of Kamal Jumblat, although the regime as a whole including Hafidh Al-Asad and `Abdul-Halim Khaddam bears full responsibility.

Friday, January 06, 2006 As'ad 2006