Assad Tells Wahhab Lebanon Stability 'Reflects Positively' on Syria
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday stressed Syria’s “keenness on Lebanon’s stability” during a meeting in Damascus with Arab Tawhid Party leader Wiam Wahhab, the party’s media department said in a statement.
The two men discussed the situations in Lebanon and the Arab region during their “three-hour meeting,” the party added.
Assad stressed to Wahhab “Syria’s keenness” on “stability in Lebanon,” highlighting “the positive impact of this stability on the Syrian arena,” according to the statement.
“President Assad stressed the need to preserver the presence of the Druze sect in the Arab Orient, hailing its national and pan-Arab roles,” the statement said.
Wahhab quoted Assad as saying that “Syria loves all its children, without any discrimination.”
“Some media outlets have reported that President Assad has received the chief of the Tawhid party in Damascus for the first time ever. The party’s media department stresses that this meeting was not the first of its kind, but rather the first public one recently.”
The Lebanese government, which is led by Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hizbullah and its allies, has sidestepped taking a firm stand on the Syria crisis in what observers say is a bid to avoid potential sanctions or a spillover of the violence.
The United Nations estimates more than 5,400 people have been killed in Syria since March as al-Assad's regime cracks down on a popular revolt.
Thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon but many say they do not feel safe in the neighboring country.
Syria controlled Lebanon from 1976-2005 and the two countries have yet to agree on an official demarcation of the 330-kilometer common border.
Despite the departure of Syrian troops from Lebanon under popular and international pressure in 2005, Damascus maintains a strong influence in Lebanon.
01 February 2012, 20:45
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"Wahhab quoted Assad as saying that “Syria loves all its children, without any discrimination.”"
If this quote weren't pathetic, it would be hilariously funny.
Insular murderous dictators were famously satirized by Mel Brooks in his movie History of The World, where king Louis XVI showed his affection to his people with the following line:
King Louis: They are my people! I am their sovereign! I LOVE Them. Pull! (the king shoots a peasant flung into air)
Of course, we all know what happened to King Louis!
01 February 2012, 20:46
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meeting of three hours with wahab??????????talking about what???
01 February 2012, 20:53
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Nassrallah should prepare two extra spaces in his rat hole, one for Assad and one for Wahhab... but not for long, as the Arab Spring will certainly reach the Shia in Lebanon and Iran and they'll be demanding accounting from their brutal leaders for taking their communities to the abyss! As Mubarak and cronies are brought to trial to answer for their crimes, so will the leadership in Syria, Iran and Hizbollahstan. Those who believe otherwise are the same ones who still believe 9/11 was a CIA conspiracy and its best to leave them in their ignorance.
01 February 2012, 21:09
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Assad stressed to Wahhab “Syria’s keenness” on “stability in Lebanon,”... in Lebanon?
Does Bashar have a TV set up in his palace? he's worried about Lebanon? Check the status of his own people!
Lebanon's doing fine, just make sure not to interfere in our affairs, and we won't interfere in Syrias
01 February 2012, 21:45
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wahab is irrelevant figure.
this is something on which we all can agree
01 February 2012, 21:57
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wahhab just went there to receive his paycheck, he is going to fall soon with his master, good riddance
01 February 2012, 22:46
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Poor bashar, if his only foreign visitors are people like Wahab (did I call him a person actually...???) it shows you the level he has fallen to.
the end is near my fiend you'd better resign and go to The Hague otherwise your end will be harsh
01 February 2012, 23:00
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I just love it! Wiám Wahhab and Bashar!! What a duo! On is in deep s. in his own country and he worries about the situation in Lebanon and the other is in deep denial and continues to lick his master...
02 February 2012, 01:23
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Bashar has all the time in the world now to meet with a guy like wahab for three long hours, shows you how popular and important of a president he is these days lol hhahahahaha... next thing you know he will start meeting with the makhateer of lebanon, might as well. The main enemies of bashar, those who will bring his eventual demise, are bashar himself (terrible IQ) and his lebanese friends who have been telling him for month "khilsit" and "next tuesday" and and.. hahahaha
02 February 2012, 03:56
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Yes Lebanon's stability is because of Syria..... ha ha. Lebanon needs Syria like a pizza shop pays the mafia for "protection". How funny this is when Syria is collapsing.
02 February 2012, 04:27
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Lebanon would be lot more stable if the border was demarcated, arms held only by the army, Syrian meddling in Lebanon’s affairs ends, and if Syrian Government conducts Policies only through the proper channels (not through bought and paid for political prostitutes).
02 February 2012, 05:23
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Hopefully his 'children' will soon hang Bashar. People like Wahhab, the SSNP, Baath (in Lebanon) and other puppets of the Syrian regime are going to disappear with the crumbling government in Syria soon.
02 February 2012, 11:17
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He want to bachar to renew his long term SSNP comedian show in Lebanon.
02 February 2012, 15:57
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the filthy zionist information war department is using huge efforts to spit on irrelevant figure
02 February 2012, 17:09
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@ jabalamel: do you mean by filthy zionist information war department BASHAR?? because he just spent 3 hours with the irrelevant figure???? please clarify...
02 February 2012, 18:06
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on May 10, one of Assad's close kinsmen, the international tycoon Rami Makhlouf, warned: "If there is no stability in Syria, there will be none in Israel. No one can be sure what will happens after that. God help us if anything befalls this regime."
