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Syrian President Assad attends Arab League Summit

Syrian President Basher Al-Assad is attending the Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia today for the first time since his country was suspended from the organization in 2011 for its brutal crackdown on protesters. Syria was re-admitted earlier this month. Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joined Anne-Marie Green on CBS News Morning to discuss the summit.
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