Iran advised Syrian President Bashar Assad on how to neutralize the uprising against him, Qatar offered him exile and he used an alias to download music from iTunes, according to a cache of 3,000 emails leaked from his account and that of his wife.
Syria's authoritarian regime held a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a gesture by President Bashar Assad to placate those seeking his ouster. But the opposition deemed it an empty gesture, and the West immediately dismissed the vote as a "sham."
