Syrian debaathification
Bashar Assad has issued "decree 498" stripping the Baath Party of jobs that previously required membership. Syria has also started withdrawing its forces from Lebanon according to DEBKAfiles.
"...Decree 408 dismissed the party as the main engine of power. Assad’s next step, DEBKAfile reports from its Middle East sources, is a major government reshuffle.
"By divorcing the ruling party from its influence over all forms of government in Syria, Assad has shown himself to be the only Arab leader who understands the import of the Iraq War in terms of regional democratization."
"...After 27 years in Lebanon, the Syrian army is completing its evacuation of the country, including even the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway. Some 40,000 Syrian troops have retired from the country, barring a small pocket in the eastern Beqaa Valley abutting the Syrian frontier, where DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s Beirut sources report two armored brigades are stationed to guard the routes from Lebanon to the Syrian capital. The rest of the Syrian Lebanese garrison has been redeployed on the Syrian side of the border."
Bashar Assad has issued "decree 498" stripping the Baath Party of jobs that previously required membership. Syria has also started withdrawing its forces from Lebanon according to DEBKAfiles.
"...Decree 408 dismissed the party as the main engine of power. Assad’s next step, DEBKAfile reports from its Middle East sources, is a major government reshuffle.
"By divorcing the ruling party from its influence over all forms of government in Syria, Assad has shown himself to be the only Arab leader who understands the import of the Iraq War in terms of regional democratization."
"...After 27 years in Lebanon, the Syrian army is completing its evacuation of the country, including even the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway. Some 40,000 Syrian troops have retired from the country, barring a small pocket in the eastern Beqaa Valley abutting the Syrian frontier, where DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s Beirut sources report two armored brigades are stationed to guard the routes from Lebanon to the Syrian capital. The rest of the Syrian Lebanese garrison has been redeployed on the Syrian side of the border."
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