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Assad Biographer: After Initial Hopes of Reform, Syrian Ruler Succumbs to Delusions of Power

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DemocracyNow.org - In the wake of Wednesday's bomb blast that killed top Syrian officials, we continue our Syria coverage with David Lesch, author of the biography, "The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria," as well as the forthcoming book, "Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad." Lesch is a professor of Middle East history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. "[Assad is] someone I think who started out with good intent," Lesch says. "[But] rather than changing the system, like many of us had hoped from the beginning, the authoritarian system actually changed him."

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