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Exclusive: secret Assad emails lift lid on life of leader's inner circle
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:23:12 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/assad-emails-lift-lid-inner-circle By Robert Booth, Mona Mahmood and Luke Harding guardian.co.uk 14 March 2012Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian leader and his wife.
The Syrian leader was also briefed in detail about the presence of western journalists in the Baba Amr district of Homs and urged to "tighten the security grip" on the opposition-held city in November.
The revelations are contained in more than 3,000 documents that activists say are emails downloaded from private accounts belonging to Assad and his wife Asma.
The messages, which have been obtained by the Guardian, are said to have been intercepted by members of the opposition Supreme Council of the Revolution group between June and early February.
The documents, which emerge on the first anniversary of the rebellion that has seen more than 8,000 Syrians killed, paint a portrait of a first family remarkably insulated from the mounting crisis and continuing to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle.
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