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

Behind the Bastards

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The Death of Basil Alasat

Peter Gabriel is one of the musicians that my mom listens to. He inadvertently caused millions of Syrians to travel and see Europe themselves. Basil Alasat was driving through Damascus in his sports car when he skidded off the road, dying instantly. The young doctor says that seeing the West helped him to open his horizons.

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