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A divided international community gives Assad time to crack down on pro-democracy protesters

A divided international community gives Assad time to crack down on pro-democracy protesters

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May 10, 2011
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A supporter of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad holds his photograph outside the Syrian embassy in London. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
AL ARABIYA

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has friends in strange places.

Support from Iran as well as militant groups like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestine’s Hamas, Syria’s closest allies, is par for the course. To…

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