Foes of the regime in Syria have refused to welcome Mr Khaddam into their camp but have cheered his public airing of the regime's very dirty laundry.
ECONOMIST: Syria
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The exiled opposition, including Mr Khaddam in Paris, the Islamist Movement for Justice and Development in London, and the Reform Party of Farid Ghadry in Washington, has never taken off.
ECONOMIST: Revolt and repression in Syria
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The strongmen of the last decades, Messrs Khaddam, Tlass, Aslan, Suleiman - though not Bashar's Uncle Rif'at - are waiting in the wings and some of them could still have their own ambitions to rule Syria.