Daily Telegraph Quoting Asma Assad: 'I am the Real Dictator'
Syria’s first lady Asma Assad told a friend that she was the “real dictator” in the family, according to leaked emails, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
Her correspondence with President Bashar Assad, his aides, friends and family portray her as highly supportive of her husband, the daily added.
In an email to a family friend on Jan 10, the British-born wife of Syria’s president, praised a speech the president gave for conveying a sense of being “very strong, no more messing around.”
In another, she complains that ABC News unfavorably edited an interview with him, the daily said.
It added that on Jan 17, she circulated an email cracking a joke at the expense of the people of the city of Homs, shortly before a regime onslaught that would claim hundreds of lives.
“As for listening – I am the REAL dictator, he has no choice ...” she wrote on Dec 14. It will not be helpful to Mr. Assad, who has made a show of passing reforms since protests against his rule broke out, the daily said.
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