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ICT encourages remaining dictators to push democratic reforms

"If Assad looks down on the roofs of Damascus or Aleppo, he will see all the satellite dishes capturing pictures of people taking to the streets of Cairo and Alexandria and calling for freedom. Assad is smart enough to push forward the reforms that he has already started in a very practical way."

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