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Damascus might be gripped by rumours of a recent assassination attempt on Bashar Al Assad, but there is no evidence of anxiety in the discreet villa he uses as his private office.

For more than an hour, Bashar Al Assad answered questions in Arabic, only occasionally lapsing into English to make a joke, flesh out a point or gently correct his young interpreter.