As a smiling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his British-born wife Asma cast their votes for a new constitution in February,
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his troops were busy shelling civilians in Homs - the heart of a revolt against his rule. Syria's soft-spoken leader looks an unlikely entrant to the Middle East's array of autocrats with blood on their hands. But after killing thousands in a year-long crackdown on protests, the London-trained eye doctor has outraged his own people and the world.
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