[BITList] defy the US - how is that possible?

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    unbelievable!
    how dare he?
    a ‘direct warning’ was given..........................
    ct

  Assad defies US as crackdown continues 
   
  Military armored vehicle allegedly in a street of Latakia, Syria Photo: EPA
  8:29PM BST 13 Aug 2011

  The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, put himself on a direct collision course with Washington yesterday after sending in tanks to crush anti-government protests in his country's main port city. 

  Armoured vehicles rolled into the palm-lined streets of Latakia, on Syria's Mediterranean coast, less than 24 hours after the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, issued a direct warning to Mr Assad to "immediately stop the violence
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