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Bashar Assad, Syria's Baathist dictator, is looking mighty lonely these days.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Bashar Assad, Syria's Baathist dictator, is looking mighty lonely these days. In response to a report finding that high-level security officials in Assad's government conspired in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, the U.N. Security Council has passed a resolution demanding that Syria cooperate with an investigation into the matter or face "further action." That is, admittedly, a weak-sounding threat--for which we can blame China and Russia, which threatened ...

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