Defector Brigadier: Syria is run by Assad’s mother and Hezbollah villages

[tabatha]

Brig. Gen. Fayez Omru, who recently defected from the Syrian army, told Algerian Echourouk newspaper that the Syrian military institutions is witnessing unrest within its ranks, adding that most brigades are feeling down.

Omru added that Homs is witnessing hardship and disasters, stressing that Anisa Makhlouf, the mother of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is controlling the regime and the way it is dealing with the current crisis.

The defector brigadier said: “Today, 5 people run Syria Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, his brother in law Asef Chokat, Mohammad Nassif and Abdul Fattah Qodsiya. However, Anisa Makhlouf, Assad’s mother, is the first in command. They take their fatwas from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. In fact the Syrian security apparatuses include Iranian advisors.”

Omru said that certain villages in Homs, such as Al Rada, are armed by Hezbollah.

http://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/21201/defector-brigadier-syria-is-run-by-assads-mother-a

The Iranians put down their uprising brutally; the Syrians are doing the same.

[TheWraith]

1. Or, if Assad's more clever than he looks...

...he just lets his mother THINK she runs the country.

[tabatha]

2. No, from previous reports, she is cracking the whip.