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A potent threat to Syria rises in exile - -

By Rhonda Roumani

from the January 12, 2006 edition

		CHALLENGER: President Bashar al-Assad, right, with Abdel-Halim Khaddam when he was Syria's vice president. KHALED AL-HARIRI/REUTERS/FILE

A potent threat to Syria rises in exile

Former Syrian vice president launches a public campaign to link President Assad to Lebanese assassination.

By Rhonda Roumani | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

DAMASCUS, SYRIA � Former Syrian Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam has become the country's first high-level official to break ranks with the Syrian government and join the country's external opposition, adding to a sense of unease on the Damascus street for the future of the regime.

From self-imposed exile in Paris over the past two weeks, Mr. Khaddam called on the Syrian opposition to join him in overthrowing the regime, calling President Bashar al-Assad a "traitor" who has caused "serious damage" to the country.


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