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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4586972.stm
Former Syrian Vice President Calls for Popular Uprising
(BBC) Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam says he wants to see President Bashar al-Assad ousted through a popular uprising. Speaking from Paris, Khaddam said: "The Syrian people will take on themselves the responsibility for changing the government." "The Syrian people are quite unhappy....There is an opposition in Syria which will find its way in leading the people to overthrow him." "A traitor is he who causes harm to his country....The man who should be named as traitor is Bashar al-Assad himself," he said. On Thursday, he told France 3 TV that the Syrian president should go to prison for his involvement in former Lebanese prime minister Hariri's assassination in February.