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00:00Does this suggest to you that President Bashar al-Assad, the former leader of Syria who was
00:06ousted at the end of last year, does it suggest he still has some influence, some sway over
00:13what happens in the country he once led?
00:18It's possible.
00:19We don't know whether he was directing these attacks or this was just done from a small
00:26group on the coast, which is the sect that Assad comes from, whether they felt that they
00:31needed to do this for their own reasons.
00:34It's also unclear whether these were the forces of Ahmed al-Sharaf, the interim president,
00:42if you will, at his direction or he didn't have a direction and essentially they went
00:49on their own.
00:50Both are very concerning to the other groups in Syria who are now likely going to just
00:57harden their positions and start arming themselves out of concern that this could erupt into
01:03yet another civil war inside Syria.