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We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion it will bite you someday.
Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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