Assad Can Avoid Trial by Leaving, Coalition Says

By HANIA MOURTADA and RICK GLADSTONE

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria’s opposition coalition gave qualified backing on Monday to its leader’s surprise offer last week for a dialogue with President Bashar al-Assad to end the civil war, pressing him to respond definitively and even offering the added inducement that he could avoid trial if he resigned and left the country.  https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/world/middleeast/syria-assad.html?ref=world&_r=1&