#Syria Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web

Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web

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“Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic — the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,” writer Joan Juliet Buck began her profile of Syria's first lady in Vogue last year. Amid descriptions of Assad's “energetic grace” and Christian Laboutin shoes, Buck wrote: “The 35-year-old first ...

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I was invited to testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia to be a witness at the April 25, 2012 hearing "Confronting Damascus: U.S. Policy toward the Evolving Situation in Syria, Part II." The other two witnesses where Andrew Tabler and Mara Karlin. My prepared statement is after the break. My prepared statement follows: "It is time for the Obama Administration to acknowledge what is obvious and indisputable in Syria: the Annan Pla...