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Bashar Al-Assad Has More Popular Support than the Western-Backed “Opposition”: Poll

Intifada (Voice of Palestine) - 2015-12-19 - Original post - Cached copy

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (C-L) and his wife Asma al-Assad (C-R) posing for a picture with a Syrian man as they attend a Christmas choral presentation at the Lady of Damascus Catholic Church in the Syrian capital on December 18, 2015. © HO / AFP
 
By Stephen Gowans
In the view of Syrians, the country’s president, Bashar Al-Assad, and his ally, Iran, have more support than do the forces arrayed against him, according to a public opinion poll taken last summer by a research firm that is working with the US and British governments. [1]

Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that Bashar al-Assad has more support than the Western-backed opposition. Would that not be major news?

Stephen Gowans - 2015-12-12 - Original post - Cached copy

December 11, 2015
By Stephen Gowans
In the view of Syrians, the country’s president, Bashar al Assad, and his ally, Iran, have more support than do the forces arrayed against him, according to a public opinion poll taken last summer by a research firm that is working with the US and British governments. [1]
The poll’s findings challenge the idea that Assad has lost legitimacy and that the opposition has broad support.

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