User talk:(WT-en) Geocachernemesis

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Syria

Your edits on Syria are good, but a lot of what you've written is assumptions, service taxis for example aren't in any way related to the bus network and dont actually stop at or near stations, they are smaller vehicles that go from village or town centres to other towns/cities. Also, tourists aren't targeted by the Syrian public, there are small sections of the government backed Hezbullah militia on the Lebanese border who may target Americans, but really it's very welcoming. --(WT-en) MiddleEastern 09:45, 21 February 2007 (EST)

Thanks MiddleEastern. Maybe you ar right. I think we do need to make it clear for travellers to the middle east that service taxis only travel between fixed points though. Feel free to re-word it to your tastes. I didn't mean to say the general Syrian public would target tourists, but I think all of the references to Hezbullah were emotive, so I simply calld them political groups. When I was there last, I heard that tourists were occasionally being trgeted in the south, near Bosra, particularly Americans. (WT-en) Geocachernemesis 16:09, 21 February 2007 (EST)

You're right there is growing Anti-US sentiment, but this is mostly in the lower uneducated classes, the more impressionable young men and women recruited to Hezbullah. In the big cities with good TV coverage and press freedom this is much less common, if an American doesn't express support for GW Bush, he or she should be fine - although you are correct in thinking that this should be mentioned, I don't think it needs to be too prominent, any thoughts? --(WT-en) MiddleEastern 12:54, 22 February 2007 (EST)

Sorry but I reverted your most recent changes to Syria, see Talk:Syria (WT-en) - Cacahuate 18:23, 21 February 2007 (EST)