Abdel Halim Khaddam

Abdel Halim Khaddam (Arab: عبدالحليمخدام) (born in 1932), is a Politician Syria N. President by interim of the June 10th to the July 17th 2000. Vice-president of the July 17th 2000 with the December 30th 2005.

After having taken part during decades in the dictatorial mode of Damas, while being a close relation of Hafez el-Assad (it in particular ordered and directed the massacre of Hama in 1982), Khaddam, 73 years old, announced its resignation of the post of vice-president the December 30th 2005 in an interview with the chain Al-Arabiya with Dubai by pretexting her conviction that the development process and reforms, whether it is political, economic or administrative, would not succeed. Many analysts allot inclinations to him to seize the power in a political situation very tended where Syria is in the collimator of several Western countries such as the the United States or the France, in particular following the assassination of the former Prime Minister Lebanon board Rafic Hariri.

The former Syrian vice-president who is with his family with Paris, where it claims to write his memories, affirmed that the president Bachar el-Assad had threatened Rafic Hariri a few months before his assassination.

He explains in his maintenance with the television channel panarabe which he breaks formally any bond with the mode of Damas, criticizing the authoritarianism of the president el-Assad. He however affirms to remain in good terms with him.

In a new maintenance granted to the newspaper Achark Al Aoussat, he states to wish to federate the parties of the Syrian opposition in order to " to create the favourable atmosphere so that the Syrian people reverse the régime".

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Report of the BBC at the beginning of January 2006
Article of the Express train on the entretion of the BBC.

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