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This image made from amateur video on March 23, 2012, purports to show Syrians pulling out the body of a man under the rubble of a building that was bombed in Homs, Syria. (Associated Press/Syria Media Center via APTN)

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This image made from amateur video and released by Shaam News Network on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, purports to show a Syrian running to help a wounded man in Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via APTN)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad and wife Asma arrive for a formal dinner after a Mediterranean summit meeting in July 2008 at the Petit Palais in Paris. As Syria's bloodshed worsens, the country's British-born first lady has become an object of contempt. The EU has banned her from traveling in the countries. (Associated Press)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria. (AP Photo/Lintao Zhang, Pool)

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This image made from amateur video and released by Shaam News Network on Saturday, March 24, 2012, purports to show a fireball after rockets fell in the Khaldiyeh area of Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) greets former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, in Moscow on Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/AP Photo, RIA Novosti Kremlin, Ekaterina Shtukina, Presidential Press Service)

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This image made from amateur video and released by Shaam News Network on Saturday, March 24, 2012, purports to show a fireball after rockets fell in the Khaldiyeh area of Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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An anti-Syrian regime protester holds a Syrian revolution flag and chants slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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**FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad arrives July 14, 2008, with his wife, Asma, for the Bastille Day ceremonies in Paris. (Associated Press)

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Syrian Army soldiers shout slogans and hold up portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a pro-regime rally in Damascus, Syria, on March 23, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A general view of Damascus, Syria, is seen on March 22, 2012. Mounting international condemnation of Bashar Assad's regime and high-level diplomacy have failed to ease the year-old Syria conflict, which the U.N. says has killed more than 8,000 people. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this July 13, 2008, file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma arrive for a formal dinner after a Mediterranean Summit meeting at the Petit Palais in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

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Clashes between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's security forces damaged this apartment building in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Mourners attend the funeral of victims of a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, March 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

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Protesters burn portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a Feb. 26 demonstration in northern Syria. A year after protests began, the United Nations says more than 8,000 people have been killed in the crackdown. (Associated Press)

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Syrian refugees speak with a Turkish soldier as people fleeing violence in Syria continue to cross the border near Reyhanli, Turkey, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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Rescue teams investigate the scene of an explosion in Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, March 18, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

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A Syrian rebel runs with his AK-47 toward a Syrian army checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, March 17, 2012. (AP Photo)

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A Syrian rebel runs with his AK-47 toward a Syrian army checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday March 17, 2012. Two suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in near-simultaneous attacks on heavily guarded intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus Saturday, killing at least 27 people. (AP Photo)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security forces gather in front of a damaged building near the aviation intelligence department, which was attacked by one of two explosions, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, March 17, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)