General Abizaid

[shokooh Ingham]

In fact in older times as John says Syrian generally
meant Middle eastern.  There is a Christian scholar of
early Christian, Pre Islamic times known as 'Isaac the
Syrian'  in Arabic 'Ishaq al Qatari' who in fact came
from Qatar the home of Jazira Television, but may have
been writing in Iraq, I think
Bruce

> > 
> > I could be wrong, but I think Syrian in American
> > ethnic parlance (if not
> > referring to someone recently arrived from modern
> > Syria) is usually a
> > variant (shading into a reduction) of Assyrian and
> > refers to theoretically
> > Aramaic-speaking Nestorian Christians from the
> Near
> > East, or perhaps to
> > anybody of Near Eastern origin who claims to be
> > Semitic, but not
> > Arab or Jewish.
> > 
> > It's a bit like trying to figure out the
> > subdivisions of the Dakota, only
> > much harder.
> > 
> > 
> 
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