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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

Bashar al-Assad

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
Statesperson
Sham city
Assad
Controlling
Incapable
Britain
Iraq

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