Nashar

Yet even Nashar says that his tiny democracy movement can barely muster support.

Dangers in Damascus 2007

Three months ago, Nashar and six friends decided to form a political group called the Alliance of Free Nationalists.

Dangers in Damascus 2007

But if Syrian democrats like Nashar were empowered, more radical elements might be too, and that could be a nightmare for Washington.

Dangers in Damascus 2007

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has "lost his credibility," Nashar boldly told a NEWSWEEK reporter who visited him recently at his home in Aleppo.

Dangers in Damascus 2007

They said that -- the person who knew him says that el - Nashar told him that he had plans, at the time, to go back to his native Cairo and then to apply to study in England.

CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005 2005

We talked to one fellow Egyptian who was a student here at the time who knew him briefly who says that el-Nashar, to him, seemed like a regular guy, someone who did not seem to have radical beliefs about religion or politics.

CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005 2005

In Leeds, where he earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry earlier this year, police have been continuing their forensic search of properties linked to the suspected bombers, including one rented by el-Nashar.

CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2005 2005

CHANCE: As British police continue their sweeps of residential areas in Leeds and Aylesbury, to the north of London, U.S. law enforcement officials tell CNN, the FBI is investigating an Egyptian national, Magdi el-Nashar, in connection with the London attacks.

CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005 2005

Magdy Mahmoud el-Nashar, age 33, an Egyptian chemistry expert arrested in Cairo on Britain's request.

CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2005 2005

DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, the FBI would like to know what the Egyptian national, el-Nashar, was doing while he was living here in Raleigh, North Carolina, particularly that semester he spent as a student at North Carolina State.

CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005 2005