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Obama Vetoed Assad Overthrow Plans, New Memoir Says

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President Barack Obama. Photo: ZOA.org.

President Barack Obama. Photo: ZOA.org.

President Obama vetoed 50 plans put to him by the CIA to engineer the downfall of the Assad regime in Syria, according to a former operative working on the project.

According to a memoir he is publishing on Tuesday, Douglas Laux was part of  a team tasked to find ways to put into effect Mr. Obama’s assertion in August 2011 that “the time had come for President Assad to step aside.”

Read full story at The Telegraph.

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