Syria's President Bashar Assad has appointed Syrian Health Minister Wael al-Halki as prime minister, after the defection earlier this week of former Prime Minister Riyad Hijab to the rebels.
Like Hijab, al-Halki is a Sunni, from the southern province of Deraa where the Sunni dominated Islamist revolt against the Assad regime started.
A bit of a risky promotion if al-Halki still has any family back in his home province!
isn't this how things are done in that part of the world?
ReplyDeletein europe, you make alliances by marrying this prince to that princess. sort of a kissing cousins of europe sort a thing.
in the mid-east, you make alliances by driving a wedge between different tribes.
which does explain the close association between islamists and dimocrat/liberal.