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Former Jordan Foreign Minister On Syria Uprising: ‘It Is Going To Be Bloody’ | Jordan’s former-foreign minister and -deputy prime minister Marwan Muasher predicted today in Washington that the Bashar al Assad’s reign over Syria would end within the next year. Assad won’t give in because, for his ruling minority Allawite sect, “reform means their own death sentence.” Muasher nonetheless expected more violence atop the current estimated count of 3,000 dead at the hands of a government crackdown: “The protesters are dead men walking right now,” he said. “It is going to be bloody.” Muasher said the problems of the region, however, were for the countries of the region — and not NATO or the U.S. — to solve.