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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad's family caught trying to escape the country, returned to Damascus
2012-01-30
Didn't something like that happen to the French royal family at about the same stage of the proceedings?
Sources tell Egyptian daily that Syrian security forces tried to help smuggle Syrian president's family out of country.

Syrian security forces attempted to smuggle Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's family out of the country, sources from the Syrian opposition told Al-Masry-Al-Youm Sunday evening, according to a report published by the Egyptian daily.
According to the report, security forces tried to aid the president's wife Asma Assad, to escape via Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
, along with his children, mother and cousin.

The sources told Al-Masry-Al-Youm that "a convoy of official vehicles was seen heading to the airport in Damascus," before they were intercepted by brigades of army defectors.

According to the source, there was a heavy exchange of fire between the security forces and the Free Syrian Army forces; the family were prevented from escaping and returned to the presidential palace.

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#12  Baby Assad needed to R-U-N-N-O-F-T quite a while ago, so now he and his entourage could get this:

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-01-30 21:06  

#11  The Mossad should call Assad with a plan.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-01-30 19:37  

#10  I fear for the Islamic countries surrounding Israel as they are organizing their own destruction.
Do I feel any sympathy for them? Not one bit.
Posted by: Grunter in Sydney   2012-01-30 18:15  

#9  I fear for Israel as the islamic countries that surround them are brought up to hate Jews and Israel
Posted by: Paul D   2012-01-30 17:26  

#8  What? Vogue magazine couldn't send a helicopter to pick up the stylish Mrs. Dictator and her brood?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2012-01-30 15:50  

#7  A regime that doesn't control the route to the airport doesn't control much at all.
Posted by: phil_b   2012-01-30 14:43  

#6  Heading out for a Euro Disney vacation?
Posted by: gorb   2012-01-30 14:19  

#5  phil b, my thought exactly.

If they've gotten to the beat feet stage the next one is the short drop to a sudden stop.

Gee, then we can have another raving Islamic nut job country. Israel is really between the rock and the hard place.

Wonder how many of those "freedom" types will get elected this time? 'bout the same as Egypt?
Posted by: AlanC   2012-01-30 14:18  

#4  If true, it means the end is near.
Posted by: phil_b   2012-01-30 14:04  

#3  wonder if he knew?
Posted by: Frank G   2012-01-30 13:31  

#2  Assad must be getting a little nervous
Posted by: chris   2012-01-30 11:53  

#1  Louis and Marie bolted for Belgium, IIRC.
Posted by: mojo   2012-01-30 11:31  

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