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We are the fault line if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.
Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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President Of Syria
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Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.
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