Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110423:03:11:00
Sunni arab. but you have kurds, christians, islamic groups, offshoots of shi'aism, like the alowes who were at one time the most downtrodden group in syria. but now a clique of alowese controls the security services, key positions in the military. and we have plenty of allies. i don't mean to suggest it's all alowese. many alowese have never benefitted from this regime and many urban sunnis have. so there's a coalition of interests here. and the demonstrations would have to get much, much larger and stretch the capacity of the regime security services to the point where some people thought abo...
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