Hafez al-Assad                                  Bashar al-Assad   

               Barack Obama
These three have more in common than one would think...

Regime forces killed more than 100 people on Thursday in Hama, Syria. 

Humanitarian activists say that more than 17,000 people have been killed, although death tolls are hard to verify in Syria, in that the Assad regime restricts journalists. 

Since Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, was in power, whose family is historically Alawite...

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