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Regime Change Mafia Style Syria 1957

Juan Cole 03/04/2005

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Regime Change, Mafia Style: Syria 1957

Settling scores department: Some bloggers or commentators expressed skepticism about my allegation of US shaping of the Middle East in the 1950s and after. Gilbert Achcar reminded me of this report of the discovery of documents proving a US and British assassination plot against Syrian leaders in 1957. Kermit Roosevelt, who overthrew the last democratically elected parliamentary government in Iran in 1953, also had a hand in planning the whacking of the Syrian leadership. The plan was never implemented, in large part because other Arab countries refused to cooperate.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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