The Syrian rats left the sinking ship of their state just in time, whisked away from the tens of millions of Syrians whose lives they have ruined and who would gladly tear them limb from limb. They were saved by the Russians, who flew them out and brought them to Moscow, where they have been given asylum. Bashar Assad brought with him 278 kilograms of gold worth nearly $300 million, $2 billion in cash, and the ownership deeds to dozens of properties in Russia.
His fetching wife Asma — fetching enough to make the cover of Vogue — grew up in London, the daughter of Syrian parents. She met her lanky paramour Bashar Assad, who was studying to be an ophthalmologist, in that city. Even though no one could call Bashar Assad a lady-killer in the figurative sense, literally he was not only a killer of many ladies, but also of men and children. Asma didn’t mind. She found his billions of dollars in net worth among his most attractive features. And so they married — the gold-digger to the holder of the gold.
Asma was by her husband’s side all through the Syrian civil war, a loyal helpmeet and boon companion, in those difficult years when he held onto power only through mass killings. A Middle Eastern Lady Macbeth, Asma did not blanch when her husband and his associates, including his uncle Maher, ordered long prison sentences, tortures, and mass executions in the forty secret prisons Assad and his father before him had built all over Syria. His regime was responsible for killing a half-million civilians. Asma knew everything for which her husband was responsible — the tortures, the prison sentences for people who had done nothing at all, the executions of an estimated 150,000 Syrians in those prisons, and the fantastic sums he kept amassing — billions of dollars piling up that he had stolen from the Syrian treasury, or made by being a narco-trafficker, producing and selling fentanyl in the Sunni Arab states of the Gulf.
But after two weeks in their Moscow exile, Asma now sees Bashar as a loser. The billions he brought with him in gold and cash have been seized by the Russian state. So have the many properties he owned in Moscow. Suddenly his most attractive feature has disappeared. Still worse, Moscow is such a dreary place. Even the shops at GUM are nothing compared to what Asma could find during her shopping trips to Europe, in places such as Jermyn Street and the Burlington Arcade in London, or on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. Asma loved to shop, loved to spend her husband’s money at Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Prada, Sonya Rykiel, La Perla, and other stores to that fashionable effect. And whose company can she now keep in cold and off-putting Moscow? Her old friends from Damascus are not going to visit her; they are now on the lam themselves. No one will have anything to do with her because she is now, like Lord Byron, too “dangerous to know.” Of the tens of millions of Syrians who want both her and her husband dead, surely a few of them will find a way to attempt their murders. No one wants to take the risk of visiting her, even if she now has a Russian security detail, for she will always be a target for assassins.
She thought they could hold onto Bashar’s billions. Vladimir Putin had other ideas — he’s seized those assets. Will he keep them for the Russian state, as a payment for all the military help that Russia provided to keep Assad in office during the Syrian civil war? Those planes at the Hmeimim airbase near Latakia, and the ships at Tartusm have been expensive to maintain since 2011. Or might Putin return the money and other assets taken from Assad and deliver it to the caretaker government in Damascus, as a goodwill gesture, in order that the Russians might be allowed to retain the use of the port at Tartus, where part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet had been stationed, and the airbase near Latakia?
If Asma has sued for divorce (which the Kremlin denies) and is granted support, will Bashar be allowed to pay his ex-wife alimony out of the money he stole from the people of Syria? Won’t such an arrangement make her even more of a target for Syrians seeking to punish the odd couple? Asma says she wants to move to London. How likely is it that the U.K. government would grant her asylum? She’s the wife of a war criminal and a war criminal herself. And even if the British government were to grant asylum, she can’t possibly appear in public. No shopping trips to the swankiest of stores, no visits to museums, concerts, plays. No, she will forever be a target, and thus a danger to all those in her vicinity. She’s not going to be allowed back into Great Britain.
Asma is now stuck in Mother Russia, where she’ll be assigned to a flat not necessarily in Moscow. She may end up in Omsk or Tomsk, or somewhere else in the far east of Siberia where she will be condemned to live, stripped of her husband’s billions, forever looking over her shoulder for the knife or gun of a would-be assassin about to strike.
Buraq says
I wonder if Asma might suddenly become subject to the law of gravity when standing near a window in an upper floor of a high-rise bloc somewhere in Moscow.
Westman says
That happened to some elderly folks in the old Soviet Union when they didn’t die quick enough by natural means and lived in a desirable apartment. The precedent has been set.
Hudders. says
We don’t want her in the UK, bvecause that means Stinky isis whore Shamima ‘Begging for it Begum’ will follow.
It is so obvious.
Watch & see what happens….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, David Lammy has already said that she’s not welcome in the UK. Congratulations to him: he finally discovered a muslim who he wouldn’t allow into the country
In this case, due to British sanctions on Russia, it’s much easier to block her from coming than all the riffraff from Calais
Hudders. says
Well said @Infidel.
Nothing would surprise me though, where the current Labour crew are concerned.
I still think stinky sharia Shamima will get let in eventually.
I suppose one can be forgiven for thinking the worst where the Starmer death cult apologists are involved.
Merry Christmas!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hudders
Don’t you think that Shamima might be offered a position in the new Syrian government? 😈
Buraq says
I wonder if Asma might suddenly become subject to the law of gravity when standing near a window in an upper floor of a high-rise bloc somewhere in Moscow.
Westman says
Divorce? Under what state’s authority? Syria? UK? Islam?
Assad has been conquered by Islamists so is the marriage suddenly void in Islam? Is Asma in danger of becoming booty if ever entering Syria?
This seems like a political divorce for whitewashing appearance and gaining control over wealth – a sudden reclaiming of Western women’s rights.
Will it first be, “Think of the children’s welfare. We must divorce to free them from censure..”
Then become, “I never loved that evil #$%^** but I could not resist his insistent demand that I shop in the finest French apparel stores and decorate my innocent simple soul with extravagance. I was completely unaware of his evil deeds and believed his explanation that the barrels dropped to the people were food aid.”
It’s a clown world on steroids….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
All their 3 kids are now adults, so thankfully, child custody ain’t one of their issues
How would UK come into the picture? Shariah too – the Ba’athist regime wasn’t a shariah regime: Syria was not Iran. The only law under which I can see her appealing for a divorce would be Russian
Although I commented below on her character of dumping her hubby after the gravy train has dried up, thinking about the Russian denial as well as her father’s denial, I do think there is something to that. She is a professional woman, if one reads her Wiki entry: she wasn’t a trophy wife. So she does have some rational cognitive abilities. She’s seen her husband’s asset get impounded, and knows that divorcing him will deprive her of the shield that he still has from the Kremlin. If she divorces him, there are no legal nor political reasons the Russians have to keep her. As it is, the only reason for sheltering his husband is all the assets he got delivered to them, and maybe as a thank you for making his country a major customer of their military hardware, particularly his father’s role in that
So she may be miserable, but she may well recognize that she’s stuck w/ him
Keys says
Seems to me, Infidel, that both Assads probably have money in a foreign bank or banks.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You mean beyond Russia, in Western countries? I’d think they’d be sanctioned & frozen
Keys says
Thanks for your response, Infidel. I always respect your comments.
Yes, that’s what I am wondering.
I am not sure what types of agreements these banks make with politicians who’ve gotten rich off their people, and what happens to the money, if they are killed.
As I know from Jihad Watch, Khomeini has taken billions in Iran. Does he have it all in Iran? What about Saddam’s money outside Iraq? Did he “diversify”?
What about Biden’s (I remember his challenging “Where’s the money” response to the 10% accusations) ?
I think Nazis had money in Swiss banks and maybe South American stashes.
I’m guessing there’s plenty of scheming and corruption we will never know about.
Emilie Green says
What a bummer. That Talaq – Talag – Talag Islamic mumbo-jumbo/short form only works for the male Muzzie.
So now she’ll have to go through the Islamic mumbo-jumbo/long form plus Russie law.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Syria didn’t have the 3x Talaqs law: actually, for an Arab country, it was remarkably civilized. Yeah, it’s horrible that the regime had to be brutal: they could have tried following the UAE model, but it was their heavy handedness that kept Syria from becoming a shariah state. The new regime might bring in the 3x Talaqs law, depending on how it perceives its PR profile abroad
rick says
I am sure Bashar has bank accounts in many place including Europe, the Caribbean, or any island where banking rules allow people like Bashar to stash huge amounts of funds. That’s the good news for Asma. But here is the bad news. He is never going to give you the location of these funds, nor the bank account numbers nor the safety deposit keys or necessary information to open them.
Why don’t you speak with a person in a similar situation like you are who successfully managed to keep a portion, however small, to allow her a glimmer of the fabulous life she thought she would be enjoying.
That would be Arafat’s wife, Suha Arafat now living in modest luxury in Paris. And I am sure she has the exact same disappointment about her life.
“The marriage to Arafat was a big mistake and I regret it,” said Suha Arafat in an interview published in the Turkish-language Sabah newspaper. “We were married for 22 years and it felt like 50.”
But look on the bright side Asma. At least you married a heterosexual.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Suha Arafat had one advantage: her husband’s regime wasn’t an anti-sunni regime like Asma Assad’s. Also, Arafat didn’t have the closeness to Moscow that Assad does. For that reason, Assad would be more likely to be boycotted than Arafat, despite both pilfering the public money of their respective governments
mgoldberg says
yes… but all she has to do is condemn Jews and Israel and become a virulent mouthpiece and the other slugs of Islam will let her live her life… as long as she parrots the hatred and venality that she will be obligated to spew if she wanted to be left alive
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The Assads had a clean record in condemning Jews, but that didn’t save them nor endear them to sunnis. So that one is out. If the statements of her father are accurate, she’s better off just sticking w/ her hubby: at least that way, she’ll be safe in Russia. She has 2 cancers already, so she shouldn’t worry too much about her mental health
rick says
Asma and Jill made the cover of Vogue and Melania Trump didn’t.
Talk about absolute proof of horrible conspiracies.
sporticus says
At the Moscow political casino she has at least a couple of aces to stymie the assassins. She’s had breast cancer recently and now has a cancer of the blood (leukemia), at least that is the story which like the “divorce application” may be another poker stance. But two cancers plus just being a woman plus being a woman freeing herself from her brutal (possibly abusive) dictator husband gives her a good hand at the table along with her demure flaxen-haired demeanor. So four good cards plus billions in dosh to pay various enablers.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Her cancers give her a good chance of croaking before any assassins can get to her
࿗Infidel࿘ says
What a delightful lady! Was happy to stick to her husband, regardless of any crimes, as long as she could live the high life. But suddenly, when he falls upon hard times, it’s time for her to walk away from him? I find her even more despicable than her husband, who only turned into a tyrant after the attempted Arab Spring uprising in 2011
Since she’s no longer a part of the Assad package, the Kremlin should extradite her to Damascus, and let HTS take care of her. If Russia has to keep her within Russia, don’t send her to a non-muslim place in Siberia: send her to maybe Chechnya or Tatarstan, one of Russia’s muslim enclaves. Incidentally, unlike her husband, she is a sunni, so she should have no problems if she’s sent to a sunni area like those above, or even a different sunni country like Afghanistan. Of course, sans her cushy wardrobe
About the UK, I just read on Wiki that David Lammy has said that she’s not welcome in Britain, due to sanctions against her, despite her British citizenship. So Britain can ban muslims from re-entering the country when they so want. Somehow, I had the opposite impression
She had also been diagnosed w/ health issues – two types of cancer – breast and leukaemia, so if anyone wants to assassinate her, they’ll have to get her quicker than one of those cancers do
As for Bashar, if his assets have all been impounded by the Kremlin, for whatever reason – whether they wanna use it to enrich Putin, finance the war in Ukraine or recoup their expenses of lost assets in Tartus and Latakia, what exactly is his value to Putin? If anything, he’ll be a sponge, unless he knows how to resurrect his opthalmology career in Moscow, or elsewhere in Russia. Maybe force him to work for a living w/ a real job like an ophthalmologist, instead of giving him a dacha anywhere. Same goes for his kids: his oldest son is a mathematician graduated from Moscow State University. So his kids shouldn’t have any trouble assimilating and being productive citizens of Russia
England Invaded says
Typical whore. Status and money gone, so divorce.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
A velvet prison of her own making.
Troybeam says
She looks like a young Nancy Pelosi in the above picture.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, indeed she does. She does look more attractive in other pictures, however ugly she may be on the inside
ruth says
what goes around comes around. I hope the Russians throw the Assads under the bus. literally!