A total of 17 candidates secured the All India Rank (AIR) 1 as per the final results while earlier the number was 67
Doubtless, Khaddam’s allegation that President Bashar Al Assad had threatened former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri with reprisals months before the assassination is the most damaging incrimination of the Syrian leadership so far. More importantly, Khaddam’s accusations, made in an interview with the Al Arabiya TV, against the Syrian leadership cannot be brushed off easily for the simple reason he himself was part of the leadership until recently.
As the vice-president, senior cabinet member and a top leader of the governing Baath Party, Khaddam had been an important part of the establishment for over three decades. He was not only involved in the decision-making process at the highest level but also played a key role in evolving and implementing Syria’s policies in Lebanon.
So Khaddam obviously knows what he is talking about when he puts the Syrian leadership in the dock over Hariri assassination and for much else happening in Lebanon. He had the rare advantage of an insider who not only enjoyed a ringside view of the goings-on in Damascus and Lebanon but also influenced those decisions. Khaddam may have an old axe to grind. That however doesn’t necessarily mean Khaddam is lying in linking Damascus to the Hariri killing and the subsequent chain of events in Lebanon. He’s only begun to sing now that he is abroad, beyond the reach of the regime in Damascus.
Whatever Khaddam’s motives, there is little doubt that his damning disclosures will have serious ramifications for Syria, Lebanon and the Middle East as a whole. The Khaddam interview has turned the heat on Damascus further providing the West, especially US and France that have joined hands in the UN to orchestrate the moves against Syria, more reasons to corner the Baathist regime and possibly teach it a lesson for its alleged support to Iraqi insurgents and Palestinian groups.
A total of 17 candidates secured the All India Rank (AIR) 1 as per the final results while earlier the number was 67
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