MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Exclusive: secret Assad emails lift lid on the life of Syrian leader's inner circle
By artappraiser on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 5:30am |By Robert Booth, Mona Mahmood and Luke Harding, guardian.co.uk, 14 March 2012
• Messages show president Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran
• Under-pressure leader made light of of promised reforms
• Assad's wife spent thousands shopping on jewellery and furniture
[....] 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 Guardian has made extensive efforts to authenticate the emails by checking their contents against established facts and contacting 10 individuals whose correspondence appears in the cache. These checks suggest the messages are genuine, but it has not been possible to verify every one [....]
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/assad-emails-lift-lid-inner-circle
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