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Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
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