Soccer weaves a thread through Syrian rebels and Assad forces
Fawwaz al Assad's soccer club website: Bashar without the thugs
By James M. Dorsey
Soccer, never distant from Middle Eastern politics, weaves its own thread through the brutal battle for the future of Syria, wracked by the Arab world’s most protracted and most bloody revolt against autocratic rule to date.
If Syrian nation youth team goalkeeper Abdelbasset…
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