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March 16, 2012

Assad Emails May Humanize the Dictator

Peter Beaumont, The Guardian

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Syria's opposition may yet regret releasing documents portraying the torturer-in-chief as an iPad user who listens to New Order.

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TAGGED: Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad

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