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No-one should decide Syria’s fate but the Syrian people themselves
There’s no reason to take Western powers’ ‘motives’ in Syria at face value. ALISON BANVILLE reports from Damascus

APRIL 14, Damascus: This morning, here in Damascus, I was woken in the early hours by the booming sound of explosions. 

I knew immediately the US had bombed — with help from Britain and France, as we now know. 

You really cannot imagine what it's like to be here and hear something like that as you lie in your bed, not just because it’s pretty frightening, obviously, but because of what it means. Let’s set it out, shall we? 

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