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Cairo (UPI) Apr 1, 2011 - Syrian President Bashar Assad is struggling to contain spreading unrest that threatens his regime by dangling the prospect of political reform but the crisis goes deeper than that. Damascus has for years been grappling, unsuccessfully, with a crippling water shortage that analysts say threatens the entire region. It was no coincidence the upheaval in Syria that began two weeks ag ... more
Michele Kearney's Snuffysmith's Blog Major Foreign Policy, Economics, Energy, and Irrelevancies of the Day
Monday, April 4, 2011
Mideast drought, factor in unrest, worsens
Cairo (UPI) Apr 1, 2011 - Syrian President Bashar Assad is struggling to contain spreading unrest that threatens his regime by dangling the prospect of political reform but the crisis goes deeper than that. Damascus has for years been grappling, unsuccessfully, with a crippling water shortage that analysts say threatens the entire region. It was no coincidence the upheaval in Syria that began two weeks ag ... more
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