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	Politics of Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The judicial system in Syria is an amalgam of Ottoman, French, and Islamic laws, with three levels of courts: courts of first instance, courts of appeals, and the constitutional court, the highest tribunal.
		An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Syria.
		elections: president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term; referendum/election last held 8 February 1999 (next to be held NA 2006); vice presidents appointed by the president; prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Syria (1586 words)

	Syria - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
		Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt.
		Syria consists mostly of arid plateau, although the northwest part of the country bordering the Mediterranean is fairly green.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Syria (4160 words)

	UNDP-POGAR: Country Index: Elections
		Elections in Syria include a presidential referendum, legislative elections, and municipal elections.
		The Syrian government prepared a new law for local administration in April 2005 that leads to free elections of all 15,000 members of municipal councils in the local elections scheduled for 2007.
		Opposition parties boycotted the elections on the pretext of a lack of the minimum necessary amount of democracy in the election process, according to Mr.
	www.pogar.org /countries/elections.asp?cid=19 (1074 words)

	Syria -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The capital is Damascus (Dimashq), on the Barada River, situated in an oasis at the foot of Jabal (Mount) Qasiyun.
		The present territory does not coincide with ancient Syria, which was the strip of fertile land lying between the eastern Mediterranean coast and the desert of northern Arabia.
		Syria is bordered on the north by Turkey, on the east and southeast by Iraq, on the south and southwest by Jordan, on the southwest by Israel, and on the west by Lebanon and the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108606?&query=syria (948 words)

	Elections in Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Syria gives information on election and election results in Syria.
		Syria elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature.
		The People's Council (Majlis al-Sha'ab) has 250 members elected for a four year term in 15 multi-seat constituencies, in which 167 seats are guaranteed for the Al-Jabha al-Wataniyyah at-Wahdwamiyyah (National Patriotic Front).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Syria (223 words)

	The Fourth Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because Syria was never an ally in the War on Terror and their "minimal and sporadic" assistance was an attempt to quiet the criticism of newly free Iraq and U.S. commanders dealing with Syria's either porous border or direct support for the terrorists crossing it.
		Syria is attempting to deflect the pressure by claiming it supports the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, turning of al-Hassan and stating it will withdraw from Lebanon (while not issuing a specific timetable).
		Syria is now surrounded by nations with an American military presence, and none of them are particularly friendly; Turkey to the north, Israel to the south, Jordan and Iraq to the east, and the United States Navy's 6th Fleet to the West in the Mediterranean.
	www.billroggio.com /archives/middle_east/syria (3510 words)

	MEI: Syria still in Washington's sights?
		The passage of the Syria Accountability Act in the House of Representatives with only 4 votes against it on 15 October could be dismissed as mere pandering by legislators eager to prove how earnestly pro-Israeli they are in the run up to a costly election campaign.
		Syria stands accused and indeed found guilty of support for terrorism and possession of weapons of mass destruction, while harbouring Iraqi Ba’thists and that country’s missing weapons.
		Indeed, the accusations against Syria that dropped off during the summer as the Pentagonistas suffered a little from the reality check on their prognostications for Iraq are now building up again, with the Accountability Act just one part of a chorus singing a hymn of hate.
	meionline.com /features/164.shtml (1404 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria on Monday received interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmad Qureih -- the highest-level Palestinian delegation to visit Assad since Palestinian-Syrian ties went sour with the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993.
		The Palestinians briefed the Syrians on the upcoming elections, efforts to renew contacts with the Israelis and movements toward an agreement among Palestinian factions for a truce.
		It focuses especially on getting Syria to stop the flow of militants across its border into Iraq, and although Syria has made some moves in that direction, they have not satisfied the Bush administration.
	english.daralhayat.com /arab_news/12-2004/20041206-APAP_1133397.txt/story.html (1168 words)

	Syria supporting Iraqi elections as step toward regional stability \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Syria's support for the elections next door may seem odd, given that the government has long opposed the U.S. involvement in Iraq.
		Assad, who took office 4½ years ago, is trying to balance the potential boost that the Iraqi elections could give to his country's fledgling democratic movement with the possibility that a successful vote would stem the flow of Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria.
		Many draw from professional associations and form an opposition bloc in Syria's 250-seat parliament, a majority of which is reserved for the Baathists.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050129/news_1n29syria.html (526 words)

	IRAQ THE MODEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Results from Monday’s Syrian elections were announced today, with a clear mandate handed to Bashar Assad, with his ruling Ba'ath party sweeping the elections with a staggering 95% of the votes.
		While the ballots in the recently conducted Iraqi elections included as many as a hundred different entities and nearly seven thousand candidates, the Syrian ballot was in contrast much more compact allowing for little room for voter confusion (in most instances the ballots were already pre-marked in favor of Bashar Assad).
		Ba'athist elections officials were mulling using a more direct slogan next year ‘Vote or die’ but feared comparisons with a similar slogan by American channel MTV urging young people of that country to vote.
	iraqthemodel.blogspot.com /2005/02/elections-vs-elections.html (573 words)

	Sep14
		The Security Council narrowly passed a resolution Sept. 2 that demanded the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon and the holding of presidential elections in the country.
		Syria, which wields enormous influence on Lebanese politics, has 20,000 troops in its much smaller neighbor.
		William J. Burns, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Near East, urged Syria on Saturday to withdraw its troops.
	www.free-lebanon.com /LFPNews/2004/September/Sep14/sep14.html (534 words)

	USCFL - And the winner in Lebanon's elections will be . . . Syria
		But such issues are rarely mentioned in a bad-tempered campaign for the parliamentary elections on August 27 and September 3.
		Clashes of personality and charges of malpractice dominate an election where seats are allocated on sectarian lines to 18 religious groups in a country of just 3.5m people.
		Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Druze sect, an offshoot of Islam, says that security agencies are intervening in the election in his area in the Chouf mountains.
	www.freelebanon.org /articles/a008.htm (656 words)

	July 12, 2000: The Jordan Crossing Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All those born after this date would not have served in the army at the Exodus, but would be serving 40 years later when the nation ended their 40 year sojourn in the desert.
		Election for Bashar Assad had been conducted the previous day and on July 11 at a late hour, the results of the elections were made known.
		The election is not important for Bashar, it is important for the voters.
	www.bibletime.com /date/2000/07.12.Trunk (292 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		“Syria is a state that supports and instigates terror, and is directly involved in the liquidation of Hariri,” Shalom asserted.
		He was the architect of Syria’s iron fist over Lebanon over the last 30 years and he established the cooperative ties between Hizbullah and Damascus, which facilitated the flow of Iranian arms to the Lebanese Shiite group --- a sworn enemy of Israel.
		The Syrian president charged that Syria is central to solving most of the issues pertaining to the Middle East and therefore it is not in the interest of the international community to seek to isolate his country.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3154570,00.html (1130 words)

	Beirut votes weeks after Syrian pullout - Boston.com - Middle East - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beirut residents voted Sunday in the opening round of the country's first elections since Syria ended its 29-year domination of Lebanon, with lingering anger over Rafik Hariri's assassination expected to propel his son to a big victory in the capital.
		The election is expected to sweep the anti-Syrian opposition to power and install a new 128-seat parliament, removing the last vestiges of Syrian control.
		Hariri's assasination in Febuary sparked mass protests and was the catalyst for international pressure that forced Syria to withdraw its army from Lebanon.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/29/beirut_votes_weeks_after_syrian_pullout?pg=full (1090 words)

	U.S. Says Syria 'Must Stop Meddling' in Lebanon
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The White House on Friday accused Syria of interference and intimidation inside Lebanon during national elections and demanded that it remove intelligence agents.
		Lebanon's elections, the first in three decades without a Syrian military presence, are being held in different regions over four weeks from May 29 to June 19.
		Both newspapers cited a senior administration official as saying Syria's plan was aimed at creating instability in an attempt to regain control of Lebanon.
	www.aina.org /news/2005061094929.htm (358 words)

	ABC News: Lebanon Holds First Syria-Free Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hariri's killing, which sparked mass protests that ultimately forced Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, appears to be the driving force in the vote.
		Syria was accused by the opposition of having a hand in the assassination, a charge Damascus has denied.
		Lebanon's long-awaited legislative elections which begin Sunday in Beirut and in other regions over the following three Sundays are seen as a chance to seal the end of Syria's political dominance after the last of its forces left in April.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=799969 (451 words)

	Worldandnation: Elections, writer's death have Lebanon on edge
		The second of the four-round parliamentary elections will take place in the south of Lebanon today, and Hezbollah expects to win, which will give the militant group greater political influence to confront international pressure to disarm now that its Syrian backers have withdrawn from the country.
		Syria pulled its troops out of Lebanon in April after three decades, and Lebanon is in the midst of parliamentary elections the anti-Syrian opposition hopes will end Damascus' control of the legislature.
		Hezbollah, backed by both Syria and Iran, led a guerrilla war against Israel's 18-year occupation of a border zone in south Lebanon that ended in 2000.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/06/05/Worldandnation/Elections__writer_s_d.shtml (454 words)

	WJLA - Syria Arrests 1,200 Headed for Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria has arrested more than 1,200 people trying to cross the border into Iraq in recent weeks and sent many back to their home countries because of suspicions they were trying to join the insurgency, Syria's U.N. ambassador said.
		Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Mustafa, said Tuesday that Syria had stopped security and military cooperation with the United States in the past few months after Washington failed to respond to repeated Syrian overtures.
		Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has steadily stepped up her rhetorical attack, from saying Syria was not doing enough to guard the border with Iraq to accusing it of permitting insurgents to stage their operations from Syria.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0505/231307.html (704 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Assad told Italy's la Repubblica newspaper that Syria wanted stability in the region, and insisted it had no hand in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Feb. 14 or in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on Friday.
		Rather than viewing Syria as an enemy, Assad said his country was a vital peace partner and force for stability.
		He denied accusations that Syria was letting insurgents cross into neighbouring Iraq unhindered and said he had offered to set up joint U.S.-Syrian patrols of the border territory.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3052100,00.html (603 words)

	Syria Test-Fires Scud Missiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria test-fired Scud missiles late last week, reinforcing Israeli fears that Damascus is giving top priority to a program to outfit missiles with chemical weapons and launch them at Israel, Israeli military officials said.
		The tests came as Lebanon held its first elections since Syria's grip on the country was shaken by the February assassination of the former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, a vocal opponent of Syrian influence.
		The elections, which continue the next three Sundays in other regions, are widely expected to propel other anti-Syrian politicians to power in the 128-seat parliament.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/02/international/i233708D69.DTL (341 words)

	Getting Clear on Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As for Syria, our Zionized US government has been rattling the sabres for a long time at Syria, simply because Syria is one of the countries that refuses to bow down to Zionist Israel.
		Many Americans are under the impression that Syria’s government is a brutal Islamic government that insists that all women are covered head to toe in burkas (such as women wore in Afghanistan under the Taliban) and subjugated like slaves to men.
		When I was in Syria, we witnessed men and women who inter-related in the same manner they do here in the United States— relaxing in restaurants together, smoking the “hubbly-bubbly” hookahs together, working together and so on.
	www.marwenmedia.com /articles_images/AsforSyria.html (1099 words)

	SYRIA NEWS SYRIAN NEWS \| HavenWorks.com/world/syria capital: Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, Suriyah, Al Jumhuriyah al ...
		"Syria denies any role in the attacks and said the latest killing was timed to smear it."...
		"Syria is working covertly through a network of Lebanese operatives to ensure Damascus can still dominate its smaller neighbor even after it withdraws the last of 15,000 troops, in defiance of a U.N. resolution demanding an end to Syria's 29-year control over Lebanon, according to U.S., European and U.N. officials, and Lebanon's opposition."...
		"Syria's often feared intelligence presence has been a key element in its political and military influence on Lebanon since its troops first intervened early in the 1975-90 civil war."...
	havenworks.com /world/syria (4240 words)

	Report: Syria Tests Scud Missiles - CBS News
		It noted the tests coincided with the first Lebanese elections since Syria's hold on the country was shaken after the February assassination of Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister.
		Syria is no match for the high-tech Israeli military, but Israel is vulnerable to attacks with ballistic missiles.
		All the missiles were launched from northern Syria, near Minakh, north of Aleppo, The Times quoted the Israeli officials as saying.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/06/03/world/main699411.shtml (335 words)

	Across Syria & Inside Homs
		Syria is not quite a republic of fear, where people are afraid to talk about the government...Syrians freely criticize the Baath regime on issues ranging from corruption to the failure to deliver prosperity"
		On the one hand, the regime is oppressing them; on the other hand, the Islamists are growing because they are able to avoid the government's steel claw from the security of their mosques and charities.
		Homs, Syria where I grew up, was a microorganism, in that tiny world everything was simple and straightforward, friendships were real and profound.
	acrosssyria.blogspot.com (2232 words)

	Intelligence Briefs: Syria (February-March 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Syria's upcoming parliamentary elections are regarded by most outside observers as a small step forward for the country, despite the fact that several major opposition groups have called for a boycott.
		Although Syrians are not likely to enjoy the freedom to choose their own political representatives anytime soon, they have been granted the freedom to complain about not having this freedom.
		In November 2002, Bulgarian media reported that Syria was selling parts for armored vehicles built by the state weapons factory Terem to Iraq.
	www.meib.org /articles/0302_sb.htm (234 words)

	Naharnet Newsdesk - Aounists Contest 2004 Elections, Support Syria Accountability Act
		The announcement came in a statement issued by the FPM at the end of a two-day conclave under the exiled general's chairmanship in Paris, which also emphasized the movement's support of the Syria Accountability act that is tabled before the U.S. Congress.
		The FPM saw in the Syria Accountability Act an endorsement of Lebanon's right to recover its sovereignty, stressing that the U.N. Resolution 520 should be the framework for getting the Syrian army out of Lebanon.
		Aoun's abandonment of his traditional boycott of Lebanon's elections came two months after his movement scored its first triumph with other opposition groups in the June 2 Metn by-elections.
	www.naharnet.com /domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Story/CBC72053BCE51D0E42256C14003C8B86?OpenDocument&PRINT (262 words)

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