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Barbara Walters tried to get Assad aide CNN job, spot at Columbia UniversityBy CHUCK BENNETTLast Updated: 5:31 AM, June 6, 2012Posted: 2:39 AM, June 6, 2012Share on email Share on facebook More Sharing ServicesMore PrintJust weeks after TV doyenne Barbara Walters landed an exclusive interview with brutal Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, she tried to get his comely young press aide a job at CNN and a spot at Columbia University, newly released e-mails show.A humbled Walters apologized yesterday after a Syrian opposition group exposed the cozy — and questionable — e-mails she exchanged with Sheherazad Jaafari, the glamorous, 22-year-old former Assad adviser, who helped arrange the big “get†with the Middle East strongman last December.The “View†founder had called Jaafari “dear girl†and signed her e-mails “Hugs, Barbara†while Jafaari referred to the 82-year-old TV veteran as her “adopted mother.â€A few weeks after the airing of the Damascus interview, in which Assad brazenly denied ordering the bloody crackdown that has cost 9,000 lives, Walters had an intimate lunch with Jaafari at the Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side, according to London’s Daily Telegraph, which first obtained the e-mails.During lunch, Jaafari, the daughter of Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian ambassador to the UN, asked for a job at ABC News.Sheherazad Jaafari had assured Assad, whom she called “the Dude,†that the “American psyche can be easily manipulated,†the e-mails show,
