Joshua Landis , an American historian of Syria who is spending the year in Damascus on a Fulbright research fellowship , said the establishment of an independent Syrian investigation represented a partial attempt to regain control of a process that , in Syrian eyes , is rapidly spiraling out of control .
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Joshua Landis
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