Assad talks tough over UN inquiry By Ramsay Short in Beirut (Filed: 11/11/2005) President Bashar al Assad of Syria threw down the gauntlet to the West yesterday, announcing "he would not bow his head to anyone in the world". Bashar al Assad: ‘We will play their game’ In a defiant speech, he promised to cooperate with a UN probe that implicated his officials in the murder of a Lebanese leader but warned that the policy would end if Syria were harmed. "We will play their game," he told an audience in Damascus university. But he also launched a scathing attack...