Asma al-Assad seen splurging while country burns [View all]

[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