SYRIA, ASSAD, RAMI MAKHLOUF, CHAM HOLDING, GULFSANDS

One need only research a wee bit to find interconnections between WHO invests, partners with whom in WHAT and why SPONSORED regime change might occur by WHICH/WHOSE competitive interests.
Who benefits, who loses??
Cui bono??
So, the following/above PROMINENT NAMES, associations, figure in Syria's STRATEGIC PRIVATIZATION GROUND FLOOR BATTLE.
MUCH more information available on ALL above/below characters than a mere few links I provide FOR BEGINNERS below.
All are from from 2008.
Meanwhile, SYRIA'S CP is BANNED.
Can't imagine why, can you?:

http://lists.ou.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0803&L=SYRIACOMMENT-L&E=0&P=239576&B=--&T=text%2Fhtml;%20charset=UTF-8

Another article from 2008 about CHAM HOLDING, MAKHLOUF associates and privatization:

http://www.ameinfo.com/164357.html

And, one more good SAMPLE.
By the way, Gulfsands involved with Iraq:

http://www.mideastmonitor.org/issues/0801/0801_8.htm

After the above SAMPLING, you are on your own to research further.

And, in case you happened to miss it, I thought I would highlight a direct link to an INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS list in the 2011 US-Islamic World Forum just held that I featured on my previous post, below. I really do suggest you peruse their names and website.
It's illuminating, instructive, like the information I feature above about Syria, Assad, Makhlouf, Cham Holding, Gulfsands murky economic ties:
 
http://www.usislamicworldforum.org/node/94