The conscience of `Abdul-Halim Khaddam: Former Syrian vice-president wants you to believe that he was not bothered when the Syrian regime crushed the Hamah rebellion and killed some 10,000 Syrians; that he was not bothered when the Syrian regime killed many Lebanese and Palestinians when it intervened militarily in Lebanon in 1976 to support the right-wing sectarian militias; he was not bothered when the Syrian government established the Syrian-Lebanese security order; he was not bothered when the Syrian government killed many of its opponents in Lebanon; he was not bothered when the Syrian Ba`thist elite set up an oppressive regime in 1970 and it remains in existence. But his conscience really bothered him when Syria supported an extension of the term of Emile Lahhud. What a man of principle and humanity he is, that `Abdul-Halim Khaddam.