Exclusive: secret Assad emails lift lid on life of leader's inner circle

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

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 2012

Bashar 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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