August 19, 2012

Good News from the Mideast

Cumali Onal, Today's Zaman

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The Arab Spring proved to be a failure in Syria. President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, supported by China, Iran and Russia, still survives despite the massacres it commits. Assad does not care about the murder of innocent people, the risk of dividing the country or the further destabilization of the Middle East.

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TAGGED: Libya, Egypt, Middle East

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