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In pics: Meet the top 10 future dictators |
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Hafez al-Assad Asmaa al-Assad (C), wife of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and their son Hafez leave a restaurant on June 2, 2004 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Salah Malkawi/Getty Images) Hafez is named after his grandfather who was the president of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule stabilized and consolidated the power of the country's central government after decades of coups and counter-coups. |