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From doctor to brutal dictator: the rise and fall of Syriaa''s Bashar al-Assad
 Toppled president came to power keen to show he was different from his father but proved to be as repressive
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Editor's Note: For a while the gawky former ophthalmologist, who had studied medicine in London and later married a British-Syrian wife, Asma, an investment banker at JP Morgan, was keen to show the world that Syria, under his leadership, could follow a different path.
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