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Timeline: Al-Assad faces unprecedented challenge
The shock waves of the Arab Spring first reached Syria on March 15, 2011. Since then, growing street protests have rocked President Bashar al-Assad's government and met with deadly repression. FRANCE 24 retraces the key dates of the Syrian revolt.
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Bashar al -Assad's fight
Sent to you from Missouri in the US, I am commissioned by the powers of the Almighty to make a plea to al-Assad to put down his fight in the name of the LORD! Al-Assad has the understanding that if he doesn't hear from God that he won't stop fighting. He's trapped in the mistaken blessings and understanding of the Manesseh and Ephraim blessing from Jacob. Convinced he has blessing from Ephraim over Manesseh, he won't put his weapons down until he hears from God.
However, it takes a Ephraim blessed person to tell him he's not to fight anymore. He's only angering God by being stubborn for the "so far above" everyone else position, that he'll only take orders from another Ephraim-blessed person. Yes, it's difficult to explain, but in his infancy, in belief, the unmistakable winner will be Manesseh. The tribe of Manesseh has, until now been labelled as the lesser. It's not however, and it never will be. The blessings were equal to the two and God's blessing is now equal. Bashar al-Assad, put down your weapons!.
attack on Homs
wondering how the rest of this civil world can sit back and watch so many innocent people being slaughtered and murdered in their homes by such a dictator and murderer without lending some assistance. There is absolutely no place left in this world for leaders to do this with their own people.The rest of this world should step him and remove this tyrant and get rid of him. He should be treated like another Saddam Hussein.
Assad on borrowed time
President Bashar Assad is a failure. He toed his late father's hardline but he is worse, turning the guns on his own people. He has no moral justification to rule his people. If he fails to leave office, he will become a fugitive like Gaddafi.