(New York Times) Anne Barnard and Ellen Barry - A Russian political analyst with contacts at the Syrian Foreign Ministry said that "people sent by the Russian leadership" who had contact with Assad two weeks ago described a man who has lost all hope of victory or escape. "His mood is that he will be killed anyway," said Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of a Russian foreign affairs journal. "If he will try to go, to leave, to exit, he will be killed by his own people," Lukyanov said, speculating that security forces dominated by Assad's minority Alawite sect would not let him depart and leave them to face revenge.
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