THANK YOU KHADAM

Now Khadam wants to be President of Syria.... Is he joking or what???

Former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam said the beleaguered regime of President Bashar al-Assad is incapable of reform and must be overthrown, in remarks published Friday.
Khaddam, who oversaw Syria's domination of neighbouring Lebanon for 25 years, also said he would meet soon with members of the UN panel investigating last February's assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.
Senior Syrian officials have been implicated in the murder, but Damascus has denied any involvement in the killing, or those of three other prominent anti-Syrian figures since then.
"This regime cannot be reformed. The only alternative is to overthrow it," Khaddam told the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat, speaking from Paris where he and his family now live.
Khaddam caused an uproar a week ago when he said Assad had personally threatened Hariri a few months before he was murdered, dealing a fresh blow to the increasingly pressured regime.
He told Asharq Al-Awsat he was "working to bring about the suitable conditions for Syrians to pour into the streets and act to overthrow the Syrian regime so that things go well."
"Syria is in danger. She is isolated as a result of the regime’s policies, and national unity is threatened. When the country is in danger, it is necessary to reinforce national unity and... the domestic front."
Asked about possible cooperation with the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Khaddam said change was what was important, "and anyone who wants to work in that direction is welcome."
However, he said he has not asked other nations to help Syria's opposition.
"I did not contact anybody because change has to come from within. If the main vector for change is external, then the interests of the country are harmed."
Amid the international outcry following Hariri's death, and under pressure from a UN Security Council resolution, Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon last April after a 29 year military presence.
On Thursday, Khaddam said Assad should be thrown in jail.
"He should go. To the house ... to prison," Khaddam said on France 3 television when asked about Assad's future.
"The most important thing is to save Syria from this regime," he said, adding that "those who were behind the assassination in Lebanon continue to kill because their goal is to create chaos in the country."
He said he believed his life was "in danger" even in France but insisted that he was not scared.
In remarks broadcast on CNN, Khaddam said Assad had taken decisions that had "brought considerable damage to Syria."
These, he said, led to the murder of Hariri, the "humiliating pullout" of Syrian forces, a split in relations with Lebanon and international isolation.
"The one who caused all of this is Bashar al-Assad. So he is the culprit."
Before he resigned in June, Khaddam had been a member of Syria's so-called Old Guard. He had been seen as a possible successor to Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez, who died in 2000.
Speaking to Lebanese daily Al-Balad, a Syrian official suggested that Khaddam was making a power play.
Khaddam "is looking to become the Hamid Karzai of Syria," an allusion to the US-backed president of Afghanistan, who succeeded the Islamist Taliban regime after US-led forces outsted them in 2001.
"Khaddam is after President Bashar al-Assad, either directly or through the UN inquiry. He is being exploited by those who want to hurt Syria and is playing a dangerous game," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Khaddam was speaking after Syria froze his assets and those of his family. It followed his expulsion from the ruling Baath party over his allegations against Assad and an announcement that Damascus intended to try him for high treason and investigate him for corruption.