Syrians elated but anxious as they pore over ousted Assad's palace

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Syrians elated but anxious as they pore over ousted Assad's palace
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Crowds came to sightsee around what was once the palace of longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad and to get to know the Islamist fighters who swept into Damascus.

Damascus – Syria's capital city was on auto-pilot Tuesday, with no new government in place in the wake of the dramatic rebel offensive that toppled longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. But as the former al-Qaeda offshoot that led that charge put some of its senior figures in charge of a self-declared transitional administration, many Syrians appeared determined to try to get on with business as usual.

'It's a celebration for all of us, for all the Syrians: here and all over the world,' said Lina Zacchar, one of the many Syrians who came to take a look at the former president's family home. 'My mum is Christian, so she is afraid. But we are telling her... we hope for a new Syria. We are all brothers, we are all sisters, we are all one! We are Syrians.

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