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Saturday, June 08, 2013
Hafidh Al-Asad in 1998: I am not preparing Bashshar to succeed me
It is official: in July of 1998, Hafidh Al-Asad stated that he was NOT preparing his son Bashshar to succeed him in office. I found it in an old issue of As-Safir.
