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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Yemen premier escapes bid Syria expats oppose strike by assassins SANA’A: Gunmen opened fire Limited US action won’t oust Assad on the motorcade of Yemen’s prime minister yesterday, DOHA: Qatar is home to a sectors, including education. but Salem Basindwa escaped large number of Syrian expatri- Another Syrian expatriate, unhurt, an aide said. ates and apparently many are echoing similar sentiments, said Ali Al Sarari, an adviser to tacit supporters of the rebels in any foreign intervention that Basindwa, said the attack hap- their country, but few favour an doesn’t see the Assad regime pened in the evening in Sana’a attack by the US that is name- overthrown would be pointless. while the premier was returning sake and wouldn’t uproot the “Moreover, such an assault home from his office. present regime. would mean that more innocent He said Basindwa’s guards Few in the community, however, lives would be lost and our key identified the licence plate of the doubt that it was the Bahsar Al infrastructure, like roads and car used in the attack and secu- Assad regime that used chemical factories, would be destroyed,” rity forces were trying to track weapons near Damascus recently said the expatriate, who comes it down.