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ent Bashar alAssad to Paris but also returned the visit to Damascus to try and reinvigorate
peace efforts in the region.”
“For a change, it is now Syria, which is at the receiving end of messages of support from
most world capitals; even the US found time to condemn the bombing. However, one won-
ders why did the world community not move in the three incidents that targeted Syria and
demand an international investigation to track the real culprits, as was the case in Lebanon
when former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Al-Hariri was assassinated in 2005? Here we may
add that the Special International Court investigating the murder of Hariri seems to drag its
feet, as no evidence linking Syria to the murder was ever uncovered. Could it be that some
Israeli implication was arrived at? And is it perhaps this underlying inkling that Israel may
be response for the three terrorist attacks, which keeps the world community silent in that
regard?”
“The Syrian martyrs who died in Ramadan also deserve action by the United Nations, its
Security Council, and its member nations to bring to justice those cold blooded criminals.”
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We now have the opportunity to reflect on several of these articles in the light of the un-
folding events highlighted in the Prologue. I will leave such reflection to the reader.