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Purveyor

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Sat Mar 30, 2013, 05:57 PM Mar 2013

From Dallas To Damascus: The Texas 'Straight Shooter' Who Could Replace Syria's Assad

By Ayman Mohyeldin and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News

He is a “straight shooter” from Texas who worked as a telecoms executive until November. But Ghassan Hitto now finds himself the presumptive caretaker-leader of Syria as world powers plot the end of Bashar Assad’s crumbling regime.

The American citizen, born in Syria, is the new prime minister of the opposition’s interim government – the apparatus that the international community hopes will seal the end of Assad’s rule.

Friends describe Hitto, 50, as “sincere” and “practical,” but the charismatic technocrat will need all the charm he can muster to unify Syria’s fragmented opposition.

His rapid rise has prompted questions about how the deadly conflict should end and has cast a light on infighting, fueled by regional countries purportedly supporting certain opposition figures.

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From Dallas To Damascus: The Texas 'Straight Shooter' Who Could Replace Syria's Assad (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2013 OP
Interesting Read: A Draft-Dodging, Zionist Friendly, Right-wing Texan Islamist to lead Syria? Purveyor Mar 2013 #1
LOL. Like we haven't seen that same scene player over and over. Bonobo Mar 2013 #2
They just don't fucking give up. Doesn't matter who is in the Oval Office. idwiyo Mar 2013 #3
 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
1. Interesting Read: A Draft-Dodging, Zionist Friendly, Right-wing Texan Islamist to lead Syria?
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 05:58 PM
Mar 2013

For the past year, a plan C or D, depending on how one numbers the failed US-Israel projects in Syria was badly needed for those presuming to topple the Assad government.

And this week, according to Congressional staffers, both Tel Aviv and the White House are pinching themselves in disbelief over their good luck with installing republican leaning conservative Dixie businessman, the congenial, Ghassan Hitto, as Syria’s new interim Prime Minister.

Securing the key position for Mr. Hitto, a decision made last year, was not so easy and had to be approached gingerly. But finally, after weeks of sometimes intense debate within Syrian opposition circles, Washington, Ankara, Doha and Tel Aviv among others, managed to appoint their preferred guy. “The White House thought Hitto was the best of a bad lot”, one Congressional committee source, whose work load includes Syria, explained to this observer. “Bottom line, he’s an American, nearly thirty years here makes Ghassan one of us. And who cares if he came here as young man to dodge military service in Syria. Many of us dodged our draft during Vietnam and what’s important is that we can count of him!”

And just as some Americans were beginning to believe that our government may be afflicted with a congenital incapacity to learn from our past mistakes, installing Hitto, “should keep hope alive and we should not give up”, according to our Ambassador in Beirut, Maury Connelly. “Look what we achieved in Libya” she lectured a visiting delegation recently. After the meeting, one participant deadpanned, “Good lord! If that woman had not been Jeff Feltman’s office favorite for whatever reason, she might still be serving coffee to State Department visitors at 2201 C St NW, Washington, DC!” Having quoted that snide comment, Maury, dear readers, is reputed to be a lovely lady. Just ask her frequent visitor, Samir Geagea of the Lebanese Forces, who is reputed to be her special confident these days.

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Bonobo

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2. LOL. Like we haven't seen that same scene player over and over.
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 05:59 PM
Mar 2013

Vietnam, Iran, Iraq... and that's just off the top of my head.

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