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Gary Ackerman: “The Assad gang's rule, which has been characterized at home by unparalleled brutality and endemic corruption, and abroad…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2011
The Assad gang's rule, which has been characterized at home by unparalleled brutality and endemic corruption, and abroad by support for Iranian hegemony, the subversion of Lebanon's independence, state support for terrorism against Israel, and illicit efforts at nuclear proliferation, is doomed and deservedly so.
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Gary Ackerman
New York

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Ackerman describes the Assad regime's actions and predicts its downfall.

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