A Facebook post said to be written by the 11-year-old son of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and “liked” or commented on by several people who appear to be the children and grandchildren of other senior members of Mr. Assad’s government, may offer a glimpse into the mindset of Syria’s ruling elite as the country braces for a potential Western strike in response to a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21.
It is impossible to confirm whether the Facebook account does, in fact, belong to the son, Hafez al-Assad, and aspects of it invite doubt. For example, the owner of the account wrote that he was a graduate of Oxford University and a player for a Barcelona soccer team, neither of which would be likely to appear on the résumé of an 11-year-old boy in Damascus.
But those claims could also be read as the ambitions of a child, and there are reasons to believe that the account may actually belong to Hafez.Take a closer look after the jump
Is this really the son of the dictator, or are we being had?
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11 comments:
"Truth is the first casualty of war"
Apparently our PSYOPs has done a terrible job spreading word about our pedophilic homo rape squads.
Have they done a better job spreading the word about our hobo humping slobbo sluts?
Meade?
Meade?
LMAO!
(And what am I supposed to sit on now?)
Now you've gone and done it Sixty.
Russian Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin compared Barack Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East to a "monkey with a hand grenade."
I think he has insulted monkeys world-wide.
Actually, Little PencilNeck seems to have more maturity than Little Zero.
Rambobama
Asma al Assad Rule 5!
I bet he's a truly annoying kid. An Uday in waiting. The nanny knows better than to press him too hard on that broccoli issue. But the mother's ok, and I'm willing to let bygones be bygones.
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