I wrote to you a few days ago about how Al-Arabiyya quickly removed a story about a role by Munaf Tlas in a future government in Syria. The reason is that the story talked about discussion about the future of Syria's government between Rif`at Al-Asad, Mustafa Tlas, and `Abdul-Halim Khaddam, all are henchmen of the Asad regime of course. That was too embarrassing for the on-going propaganda operation.