(Washington Post) Shafeeq Ghabra - Bashar Assad urged the Arab League summit not to provide any support or facilities to the U.S. for its possible war with Iraq. Assad also indirectly targeted America's strongest supporters - Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, and the UAE. Syria is also aware that the end of the Hussein regime will be the beginning of an emphasis on issues that Damascus would rather not confront: Syria's role in Lebanon, its support for Hizballah and some Palestinian organizations, and one-party rule in Syria. Furthermore Syria has been profiting from economic cooperation with Baghdad, both through trade and from fees from the pipeline that goes across Syria from Iraq.
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