CSPAN Post-Assad Syria December 23, 2012
The defense minister four years was a suni, which is important to the arab nationalists. His deputy was a member of a key alawite family closely tied to the assad regime. I think the challenge really is trying to figure out where the extended Family Network stops and where the broader Alawite Community begins. That is not easy. Assad, the father and the sun has inherited this. They have been a pretty remarkable job incorporating all of the different elements of the Alawite Community and making sure there are included in the system. Certainly they are facing a fall from status, or at least a pe...
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