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A report in the Sunday Times of London said that Mossad, the Israeli secret service, managed to take a urine sample from President Hafez Assad of Syria when he was in Jordan in February 1999 for the funeral of King Hussein.
Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.
The Palestinian editor of the Pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi (which was banned in Syria this June when it said President Hafez Assad sought peace with Israel only so that he would be able to pass on his job to his son) replied with vigor to Tlass' outburst.
Writing for Ha'aretz from Amman, Zvi Bar'el noted that a Jordanian publicist had dubbed King Abdullah "a king for the Internet age" and suggested this might make his relations difficult with veteran Arab leaders such as Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Hafez Assad of Syria, and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
The WP account states that in the run-up to last week's announcement of the talks, the U.S. engaged in much secret diplomacy, including a dozen phone calls between President Clinton and Syria's Hafez Assad.
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