Occupy Syria and DIE (presidential interview)

ABC News (exclusive Barbara Walters interview)

President denies ordering bloody protest crackdown

Syria's defiant ruler sits down with ABC's Barbara Walters for an exclusive interview. "We don't kill our people." [POSSIBLE LOGIC: Our police and military kill our people. The police and military are the people. So the people kill themselves.] "No government kills its people and survives." The killings continue.

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