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March 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
EU and British officials have faith that the move will add to the “stranglehold”
on the regime, though it has survived 11 previous rounds of sanctions.
Like others already listed, Mrs Assad is likely to be subject to an EU travel
ban, though this would not prevent her travelling to Britain, if she has
retained her British citizenship.
Born and raised in Acton, west London, she married Mr Assad in late 2000, the
year he was installed as president following the death of his father, Hafez.
Her role in the president’s inner circle has come under increased scrutiny
after emails written by Syria’s first couple were leaked by opposition
activists.
They showed that as the government offensive that has claimed an estimated
7,000 lives intensified, she shopped online in London and Paris, spending
tens of thousands of pounds on jewels, furniture and a Venetian glass vase
from Harrods.
She used an alias to make purchases from Europe and asked a friend to acquire
a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II for her two older
children. In drawing up previous sanctions, the EU froze “all funds and
economic resources” belonging to “persons responsible for the
violent repression against the civilian population” or “persons
and entities associated with them”.
Mrs Assad may already have violated sanctions with her online shopping spree
that could expose her to prosecution. The regulations prohibit EU citizens
from making “funds or economic resources” available to anyone
named on the list.
Before the protests against her husband’s rule began a year ago, she
cultivated the image of a glamorous yet serious-minded woman with strong
Western-inspired values who would liberalise the ruling family and the
country. A glowing article in Vogue magazine described her as “a rose
in the desert” and her household as “wildly democratic”.
That image crumbled when her husband responded to the anti-government
rebellion with extreme violence. She has shown no sign of the inner torment
that some who met her beforehand assumed she was going through. Her messages
to her husband and her friends are utterly supportive of him and at times
display a resolve to see the crisis out.
“If we are strong together, we will overcome this togethere_SLps I love
you,” she wrote to her husband on Dec 28.
In her only statement since the crisis broke out, she said: “The
president is the president of Syria, not a faction of Syrians, and the first
lady supports him in that role.” The emails also show that her father,
Fawaz Akhras, a cardiologist at London’s Cromwell hospital who has a private
practice on Harley Street, regularly provided advice to Mr Assad on media
and public relations policy.
“She and her father are accomplices to this crime. They learned nothing
from the democracy here in the UK,” said an opponent of the regime in
London who asked to be named as Fawaz. He claimed that Mrs Assad had become
a hate figure for many in the expatriate community of which she was once a
part.
“They have stolen Syrian money. She is squandering it here in London,”
he said.
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