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presidential adviser Bouthaina
Shaaban and with Rami Makhlouf, the powerful maternal cousin of
President Bashar Assad, who represents the financial front of the
regime.
Shadid was allowed into Syria ... intended to be interpreted in the United
States as a marginally soft statement by Bashar Assad. In contrast,
Makhlouf offered the harsher alternative if the president's approach
was rejected ... there never was.
Genuine reform means dislodging the bricks holding up Assad-
Makhlouf authority. Bashar Assad's open-ended presidency, the
crony capitalism practiced by his cousin and other members
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01073907.pdf
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2014-01-2233p8,187w
Syria, Obama administration is leading to
failure
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
Fate of Bashar Assad is key in Syria talks
Patrick J. McDonnell
Article 3.
Foreign Policy
Supporting America ... fail and that the atrocities will continue.
Article 2.
Los Angeles Times
Fate of Bashar Assad is key in Syria
talks
Patrick J. McDonnell
January 22, 2014 -- Montreux, Switzerland ... Syria's civil war is the fate of one man: Syrian President Bashar
Assad.
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Assad has steadfastly maintained power during nearly three
years
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01939256.pdf
EFTA01954751Set 10
2013-09-1728p6,748w
Street Journal
A Very Productive Chemical-Weapons
Attack
Douglas J. Feith
September 16, 2013 -- Bashar Assad may have pulled off the
most successful use of chemical weapons in history ... treaties. In
the name of U.S. interests, he is emboldening America's
enemies.
Bashar Assad must be blessing the sarin gas that killed all those
men, women and children ... that is. The Obama administration has given up on
exacting some tangible price on Bashar Assad for using
chemical weapons, in exchange for a promise by Russia that it
will
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01954751.pdf