Twitterati Report: Syria Trip Mixes Work With Play

SNIPPET: "The State Department's two leading Twitterati, Special Advisor on Innovation Alec J. Ross (@alecjross) and Policy Planning staffer Jared Cohen (@jaredcohen), are in Syria this week leading a delegation of tech companies hoping to, as the Wall Street Journal's Jay Solomon puts it, "woo President Bashar al-Assad away from his strategic alliance with Iran" with offers of networking equipment, computer software, and the like."

SNIPPET: "In between drinking frappuccinos and touring such places as the Souk al-Hamadiye, the famous covered marketplace in Damascus, Cohen and Ross did find time to hold substantive meetings with Syrian students, entrepreneurs, civic leaders, government officials, and Assad himself."

...and in other news:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2536633/posts

“Assad: War likely after flotilla raid”
jpost.com ^ | 6/17/10 | staff
Posted on June 17, 2010 9:24:39 AM PDT by Nachum

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2537123/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2531506/posts

“Russia supplying Syria with combat jets”
Space War ^ | 6/9/2010 | UPI via Space War
Posted on June 9, 2010 9:41:08 PM PDT by sonofstrangelove

Speaking of entrepreneurs...

Previously...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2502852/posts

Note: The following text is a quote:

www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/a-new-beginning-presidential-summit-entrepreneurship

Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release April 26, 2010
A New Beginning: Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship

In his June 2009 “A New Beginning” speech in Cairo, President Obama announced that the U.S. would host a Summit on Entrepreneurship to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations, and entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world. The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, held in Washington, D.C., today and Tuesday, April 27, at the Ronald Reagan Building, follows through on President Obama’s commitment. It represents an opportunity to highlight the importance of social and economic entrepreneurship, and strengthen mutually-beneficial relationships with entrepreneurs in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities around the world. The Summit emphasizes the President’s broader aims of supporting entrepreneurship, innovation, and opportunity at home and abroad.

SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS

Participants have been selected from around the world to represent their home countries, regions, and sectors at the Summit. They hail from over fifty countries on five continents and include successful entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and leaders of entrepreneurship networks, non-profit organizations, foundations, and businesses who are invested in promoting entrepreneurship. (Submitted biographies attached.)

Participants hail from: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, China, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyz, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories, Paraguay, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, United Kingdom, the United States, and Yemen.

SUMMIT COVERAGE

A complete agenda can be found at http://www.state.gov/entrepreneurshipsummit/.

The plenary sessions will be OPEN press, and the State Department will provide live coverage at http://www.state.gov/entrepreneurshipsummit/. The President’s remarks will also be livestreamed at www.whitehouse.gov/live.

ATTACHED are 1) a fact sheet on the Summit, 2) biographies of Summit participants, and 3) select press clips.

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