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"The Assads are the dirtiest of families," shouted crowds in Deir Balba, on the edge of Homs, according to a YouTube clip that showed people waving pre-Baath party Syrian flags.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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"The Assads are the dirtiest of families," shouted crowds in Deir Balba, on the edge of Homs, according to a YouTube clip that showed people waving pre-Baath party Syrian flags.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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"The Assads are the dirtiest of families," shouted crowds in Deir Balba, on the edge of Homs, according to a YouTube clip that showed people waving pre-Baath party Syrian flags.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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"The Assads are the dirtiest of families," shouted crowds in Deir Balba, on the edge of Homs, according to a YouTube clip that showed people waving pre-Baath party Syrian flags.
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Was the artist maybe recruited in Damascus and permitted to go home to the Assads after he finished the job, or was he set to work training an entire school of North Korean wave-bird-and-froth painters who await future deployment?
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Was the artist maybe recruited in Damascus and permitted to go home to the Assads after he finished the job, or was he set to work training an entire school of North Korean wave-bird-and-froth painters who await future deployment?
The Mural 2009
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A combination of the Arabic words for republic ( jumhuriya ) and monarchy ( malikiya ), the term was coined by Mr. Ibrahim to characterize the family dynasties of the Mubaraks of Egypt and the Assads of Syria.
A Democrat's Triumphal Return to Cairo Bari Weiss 2011
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Well, when compared with Saddam, Gaddafi, and the Assads, they surely are moderate.
Ken Blackwell: Arab Spring/Islamist Fall Ken Blackwell 2011
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Like other secular Middle Eastern dictators e.g., the Assads in Syria or Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Mr. Mubarak played a canny double game with the Islamists, ruthlessly repressing their domestic attacks but turning a blind eye to their organizing and export of jihadism abroad.
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In moments like this it is probably also wise to recall the enormous pressure placed on Israel over many decades to negotiate with the despotic Assads in order to give back the Golan Heights.
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