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Saturday, 21 January 2012

'Ghosts' Of Syrian Regime Track Activist

Assad looms large: a poster of the president hangs on a balcony in Damascus Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs Editor, Syria We didn't tell anyone we were meeting activist Zed Zoabi but within a minute of saying hello to him in a Damascus car park, he pointed out a large man in a black coat who was following us. For Mr Zoabi this is an occupational hazard. He is one of Syria's leading dissidents. That doesn't mean many people here know who he is, like most unofficial opposition figures he doesn't...

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