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Part Two: Bashar al Assad: The Eye Doctor Who Murdered a Nation

Behind the Bastards

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I Want to See My Penis, but I Don't Have to Kill People.

Ana Navarro: For a time, Bashar al-Assad thought he would be safe from the fires of revolution sweeping through the Arab world. She says his regime's articles reflected its sense of immunity from the virus of protests spreading elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa. The article ends by accurately describing the forces that led to the toppling of President Mubiya -- who was an American lackey.

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