The September Bomb Revealed Vulnerability In The Syrian Regime, Say AnalystsFrom The BBC:
Compared with its neighbours and many other countries in the Middle East in recent years, Syria is a place where the modern scourge of terrorism has scarcely been felt.
It has been spared the prolonged mayhem of Iraq, the slow drumbeat of political assassinations in Lebanon, the periods of looming fear in Israel.
Admirers put this success down to iron-fisted rule by the Baathist government along with its shrewd political stances on issues that have tended to be the focus of terrorist action.
Syria's enemies, on the other hand, maintained the reason was that Damascus was in fact an exporter of terrorism, sponsoring Palestinian militant groups who bomb Israeli cities, allegedly masterminding the Lebanon attacks and helping the anti-US insurgency in Iraq.
The Bush administration has gone as far as associating Syria with its global "axis of evil", and the state department has long included Damascus in its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
So the car bombing on 27 September, which killed 17 people at a major junction in southern Damascus, has necessitated a readjustment of thinking on all sides.
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