What about Rifaat?

Reader comment on item: Lebanon's Liberation Approaches

Submitted by Alex (United States), Mar 3, 2005 at 01:55

I realize that this may be a very taboo subject, but what would Dr. Pipes say about Rifaat al-Assad replacing Bashar in a US or Israeli-led coup? A response to this comment would be quite informative to us all.

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Daniel Pipes replies:

Rifaat al-Assad has pretty much disappeared from the political scene; I cannot imagine his being a future ruler of Syria.

DP