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March 25, 2012

Attempt to Topple Assad Has Failed

Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

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The EU travel ban serves to show how impotent the outside world is in its dealings with Syria.

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

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