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Posted: January 7, 2013 at 4:47 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “What we started will not stop.” Syrian President Bashar Assad, in his first public speech in six months, in which he laid out terms for a peace plan that keeps himself in power, ignoring international demands to step down Article, 1A

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