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Assad scoffs at Western calls for ouster
DAMASCUS : Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday scoffed at Western calls for his ouster and rejected them as "wort
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"While withholding comment, we tell them that their words are worthless," Assad said.
"Such remarks should not be made about a president who was chosen by the Syrian people and who was not put in office by the West, a president who was not made in the United States."
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011