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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cautioned Syrian President Bashar Assad to back away from his violent crackdowns against peaceful demonstrators and oppositional political parties, not to mention a planned Arab League visit that was canceled due to concerns over numerous military assaults against rebellious cities, one must wonder if Syria’s rulers are committing the same mistakes of those who forged the Assyrian Empire thirty centuries ago. The Assyrians, who lived on the upper Tigris River and developed iron weapons, started to expand southward into Mesopotamia around 1100 BCE. Through warfare and brutal suppression, they…
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