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Protesters shout slogans against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration held after the Friday prayers on June 24, 2011, in Istanbul.
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

Open quoteThere is no budget for the country but only money to serve the regime's security forces and its 'ghost hit men.'Close quote

  • IMAD GAHLIOUN,
  • a former member of the Syrian Parliament who defected to Egypt, on President Bashar al-Assad's ongoing crackdown
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