Syrian president vows to crush ‘conspiracy' behind uprising

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

BEIRUT -- By turns defiant and threatening, President Bashar Assad vowed Tuesday to use an "iron hand" to crush what he called the terrorists and saboteurs behind Syria's 10-month-old uprising in which thousands of people have been killed.

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