Word: baath
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...known for some time that Assad was ill. But the suddenness with which he died surprised nearly everyone, including Israeli intelligence. In northern Virginia, the reports of Assad's death came into CIA headquarters early Saturday morning. The agency's operatives in Damascus were reporting that top Syrian and Baath Party officials were spotted rushing to the presidential palace on a hilltop overlooking the capital city. By early morning Washington time, officials at the U.S. embassy in Damascus, who were working their own sources, had what they believed was solid confirmation that Assad was dead. President Clinton got word...