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Assad uses rare televised address to the country to slam "monsters" over Houla.

As many as seven journalists and security guards are dead, state media reports.

Syria's Assad makes an unusual television appearance the day after his regime suffers a major defection.

Syrians listen to the televised speech of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at their house in Damascus on June 3, 2012.

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