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| Syria VP Shara under house arrest |
| 2012-08-19 |
| BEIRUT: Syria denied reports on Saturday that President Bashar Assad’s deputy had defected and his forces pressed an offensive against rebels, bombarding parts of Aleppo in the north and hitting an insurgent-held town in the oil-producing east. Vice President Farouq Al-Shara “never thought for a moment about leaving the country,” said a statement from his office broadcast on state television issued in response to reports that the veteran Baath Party loyalist had tried to defect to Jordan. But a former Syrian minister who defected last March said it was “well-known” that Shara had tried to leave and was under house arrest. “Shara’s position is well known. He has been trying to leave Syria,” former deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameddin told pan-Arab television Al-Arabiya. “But there are a series of circumstances that prevent him from leaving, especially the fact that he has been under house arrest for some time,” he said, adding that top level officials in Syria were being kept under surveillance. Shara, whose cousin — an intelligence officer — announced his own defection on Thursday, is a Sunni Muslim from Daraa province where the revolt first erupted against Assad, from the minority Alawite sect. The 73-year-old former foreign minister kept a low profile as the rebellion escalated but appeared in public last month at a state funeral for three of Assad’s top security officials killed in a bomb attack in Damascus. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Operation Ass Wipe up date- tidy bowl man has taken rounds- toilet brushes are running low- bed pans gone from hospitals and all duck tape is missing from store shelves> Johnny on the spot thefts have increased 10 fold and their are now blue colored insurgents running amok in the streets! Out of TP and dimes please advise we are pinned down in a public restroom and these bastards only wipe with one hand! |
| Posted by: Unearong Angomosh4693 2012-08-19 14:45 |