Thursday, April 10, 2014

Assad Is There To Stay




| by Nicola Nasser*
( April 9, 2014, Bir Zeit, West Bank , Sri Lanka Guardian)
 Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege and its fall was just a matter of time and that the days of President Bashar al-Assad were numbered and accordingly he “should step down.”