Asma al-Assad seen splurging while country burns

[Sand Wind]

While Syria goes through a bloody civil war, with hundreds being killed on a daily basis, Asma al-Assad, the wife of embattled President Bashar al-Assad, splurges on luxury items and watches her weight, according to media reports.
The Uk’s Daily Mail has revealed the First Lady’s habits of ordering Western food for her children, purchasing a $450,000 chandelier last year and posting pictures of herself wearing fitness accessories.

Asma al-Assad is currently taking refuge in a bombproof shelter to avoid the current deadly violence in her country, while Syria and the international community await a U.S. response on the latest alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, according to the newspaper, which likens her to Marie Antoinette, a reference to the doomed French queen.
“Asma Assad has no heart. She is obsessed by how chic and beautiful she looks,” Ayman Abdel Nour, a former advisor to the Syrian president was quoted as saying in the article. “She is at the center of a fool’s court.”
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/2013/09/02/Asma-al-Assad-seen-splurging-while-country-burns.html

[Cha]

1. Boy, does she sound like she has a lot to learn..

Nice end quote.. not.

"The article depicts the Assad’s home lives, with the president telling the author he was attracted to studying eye surgery “because it’s very precise, it’s almost never an emergency, and there is very little blood.”

The controversial article was later removed from Vogue’s website."

thanks for the link, Sand Wind.

[JI7]

2. that's really REALLY CREEPY

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. Al Arabiya is an agenda driven Saudi owned network who are also the leading sponsors of the Jihadist

elements of the Syrian rebels. The Saudi Royal Family who own Al Arabiya with their thousands of Princes and Princesses are not in the strongest position to point figures at splurging self-indulgence.

Al Arabiya was created to be a direct competitor of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera.[6] As a response to Al Jazeera's criticism of the Saudi royal family throughout the 1990s, members of the Saudi royal family established Al Arabiya in Dubai in 2002.[9] According to a 2008 New York Times profile of Al Arabiya director Abdul Rahman Al Rashed, the channel works "to cure Arab television of its penchant for radical politics and violence," with Al Jazeera as its main target. Al Arabiya is said to be the second frequently watched channel after Al Jazeera in Saudi Arabia.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Arabiya

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Pesky facts...there. That is a bad habit you got there

[me b zola]

5. Condi shopped for high-end shoes while people were dying in New Orleans

Should we have bombed ourselves?

[avaistheone1]

6. lol

I forgot about that.