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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000GAKS24
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #267,813 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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From Damascus, an hour with the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. He discusses the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the political climate in Syria, the future of the country and its relationship to its bordering states and the US. Bashar al-Assad also shares his thoughts on the broader issues of the war in Iraq and terrorism.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Is it correct to interview an enemy ?, December 18, 2007

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

I am not sure that Charlie Rose did the right think by interviewing Bashar Assad. On the one hand he does the journalist's job of searching out the subject, exploring the reality presenting this to his viewers. On the other hand he provides a platform for an enemy of his own country, a mendacious dictator who lies to him in his face, repeatedly. Rose does not ask one question which had to be asked. The Syrians are allegedly supplying a large number of infiltrators into Iraq, who are attacking and killing Americans. This should have been Rose's first question.
Rose does ask other tough questions, on first instance the Harari assassination. Everybody in the world believes Syria did this. Harari was Assad's opponent, and Rose does point out that it is Harari's son who says Assad threatened Harari immediately before the assassination. Assad smiles and lies, and says he knows Syria had nothing to do with it. Rose also asks Assad about Holocaust- denial of Ahmadinejad. Here the body- language, the evasion, the attempt to get out of it by Assad are blatant. He says something like 'Some Jews were killed'. Rose is to be credited for correcting him and pointing to it being a matter of 'extermination' and not of killing here and there.
Assad tells Rose he wants 'peace' but feels misunderstood. Rose does not point out the dictatorial character of Assad's regime, or mention minority Alawite rule over the majority Sunnis. Assad clearly wants a lifting of American sanctions and economic benefits. Rose does not go into the character of the Syrian regime.
Again I am sure that Charlie Rose should have done this interview. But then perhaps his view is that the viewer has to be the one who judges the 'truth' of what he is presented with.