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In speech, Assad claims foreign meddling

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Michael BärJanuary 10, 2012

Syria's President Bashar al Assad struck a defiant tone in his first televised speech since the arrival of Arab League monitors. He denied there were orders to shoot protesters and that Syria's problems were the fault of foreign meddling.

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