A smiley always makes the pain of gassing your citizens go away – PB/TK
Syria’s first lady smiles her way through hubby’s bloody civil war – BY ANDREW MALCOLM APRIL 14, 2017
According to an Instagram account bearing her name, the British-born wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is enduring that country’s bloody civil war in good health, safety and nice clothes.
Asma al-Assad is shown there in legions of touching photos chatting with women, reading to children, watching her husband sign documents and comforting families reportedly freed recently from rebel-held territory. Each entry carries the hashtag #WeLoveYouAsma.
In one recent photo labeled #mothersday, Asma Assad was shown walking down a hall with three boys, all shown from behind obscuring their faces.
It seems likely that rather than being a genuine, hands-on personal account, hers is run by the regime seeking to present an alternate reality of normalcy to the ghastly photos of gassed children gasping for air that prompted President Trump to launch cruise missiles on one of Assad’s six air bases last week.
Assad said Thursday reports of Sarin gas being dropped on civilians and photos of dead and dying people of all ages were fabrications of the United States and West. In an interview on Russian TV last fall Mrs. Assad praised her husband as one who takes his role as a father “very, very seriously” and is a “very giving man.” Giving what, she did not say.
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