The civilian leadership blamed military incompetence, and the military responded by criticizing the civilian leadership led by Jadid | was no longer focused on "getting Assad out", but this position changed in the wake of the |
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The National Congress, which included delegates from Ba'athist Regional Branches in other countries, has been compared to the | Although the foreign press criticised Syria's reluctance to liberalize its economy, Assad's government refused to modernize the bank system, permit private banks and open a stock exchange |
move, announced by the Treasury Department, freezes any of the Syrian officials' assets that are in the United States or otherwise fall within U | The supports the Assad government |
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With Assad's consent, a new government headed by the presumably clean was established with new, young technocrats | Rifaat al-Assad also lacked military support; officers and soldiers resented the Defense Companies' monopoly of Damascus' security, their separate intelligence services and prisons and their higher pay |
While not a leadership role, it was Assad's first appearance in national politics; in retrospect, he said he positioned himself "on the left" in the Regional Command.
8The state-sponsored became pervasive; as Assad's authority strengthened at his colleagues' expense, he became the sole symbol of the government | called on the Obama administration to create a war crimes to investigate and prosecute violations "whether committed by the officials of the Government of Syria or other parties to the civil war" |
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Sectarianism [ ] Assad greeting on the latter's arrival at , July 15, 1974 When Assad came to power, he increased Alawite dominance of the security and intelligence sectors to a near-monopoly | Assad's actions angered much of the Arab world however and the sight of Syria trying to eliminate the PLO brought criticism upon him |
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