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President Bashar al-Assad is pictured during an interview with Russian television in Damascus October 30, 2011 in this handout photograph released by Syrian national news agency SANA.
Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2011

Open quoteI don't own them. I am President — I don't own the country, so they are not my forces.Close quote

  • BASHAR ASSAD,
  • Syrian President, telling ABC's Barbara Walters that he did not give orders for security forces to use violence against the people involved in a 10-month uprising
Photo: SANA / Reuters | Source: BBC