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Buthayna Shaaban’s Interview With The New York Times

May 10, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

The Syrian government made an exception and let a Times reporter enter Syria “for a few hours”, only to tell him that the regime is close to finishing off the “fundamentalists, extremists, smugglers [and] people who are ex-convicts and are being used to make trouble”