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On my first trip to Syria, nearly 13 years ago, I rarely opened the curtains in my Damascus hotel room. • The view outside was of a bleak army barracks and a huge poster of President Hafez Assad towering four stories high. His stern visage left no doubt: Syria was a police state. • Accompanying me everywhere was a "minder'' from the Ministry of Information who, to his credit, did his best to ignore the first rule of all such Arab bureaucracies: provide as little information as possible. There was no Internet, no cell phones, no idle chatting with people on the street. • In 2000, Assad died and his son Bashar, a London-trained eye doctor, became president. • Syria continued to be a tough place for journalists — on my next two visits I had to sneak in
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