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Syrian dictator Assad, wife living life of luxury while country in tatters
The Sun via Fox News ^ | April 13, 2018 | Non Listed

Posted on 04/13/2018 12:10:00 PM PDT by BeadCounter

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In 2012, Wikileaks published private emails from the 42-year-old Brit showing she had splashed out $350,000 on 130 pieces of furniture when the bloody civil war had been raging for one year.

She also bought a pair of $7,000 shoes with crystal-encrusted heels and had the goods shipped to Dubai, to get around sanctions.

The murderous pair’s ultra-modern presidential mansion — commissioned in 1979 and designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange — is thought to have cost up to $1 billion.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; propaganda; russia; syria
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To: Cicero

No different than any other 3rd world except Syria is now the last of the Westernized Arab countries.

Same thing was said about Mubarak.
We took him out and radical Islam move in.


21 posted on 04/13/2018 12:27:02 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: BeadCounter
Well, if you can't live in luxury,what's the point of being dictator?
22 posted on 04/13/2018 12:27:17 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (,uld')
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To: BeadCounter
Syrian dictator Assad, wife living life of luxury while country in tatters

Well, yeah - that's what most dictators do. The notable exceptions were the 20th centuries all-time mass murderers - Hitler, Stalin and Mao. They lived in relatively modest settings, but the lesser dictators - the Saddam Husseins, the Idi Amins, the Manuel Noriegas - they like to enjoy their wealth.
23 posted on 04/13/2018 12:28:24 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BeadCounter

Seems to me that one of the missiles we have coming for “dispersal” in Syria should head on over to the Presidential Palace! Let’s see how this bitch walks in her $7k pair of shoes through the rubble if she survives.


24 posted on 04/13/2018 12:28:34 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Bulwyf

In California that’s a multi-million dollar home.


25 posted on 04/13/2018 12:28:38 PM PDT by WarlordBK
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To: BeadCounter

Holy crap these warmongers have NOTHING!!!

Why don’t they just go volunteer for ISIS and stop bugging Americans.


26 posted on 04/13/2018 12:30:09 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
They lived in relatively modest settings, but the lesser dictators - the Saddam Husseins, the Idi Amins, the Manuel Noriegas - they like to enjoy their wealth.

Kind of like television evangelists.
27 posted on 04/13/2018 12:30:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Obadiah
Is that legit?

Appears to be. This is the address.

28 posted on 04/13/2018 12:30:22 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

The homes in the upper part of the picture would probably be selling for $700,000 or more if they were in, say, Palo Alto, rather than occupied by Maxine Water’s peeps.


29 posted on 04/13/2018 12:30:26 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: BeadCounter

Hasn’t been my goal to see Assad overturned.

When governments topple, you never know what you’ll get next.

I have seen the uprising in the Eastern part of his nation which expanded, as I would see an uprising in he U. S.

While I differ with Assad on things, I wouldn’t agree that the U. S. should quit all it’s SOP due to an uprising.

IMO < This article is nonsense. It’s an attempt to demonize Assad.

If he’s has used chemical weapons, he’s obviously an evil man in need to being toppled. If not, this is just propaganda. I am not convinced he has been using chemical weapons.

Perhaps he has, but I haven’t been convinced of it yet.


30 posted on 04/13/2018 12:31:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Bulwyf
To be fair, that’s nowhere near a mansion, just an average sized house.

Agreed, but that average-sized house, located in CA, likely has an extraordinarily high California property value.

31 posted on 04/13/2018 12:31:14 PM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is hate speech to those who hate truth.)
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To: BeadCounter

Not surprising. All dictators and political liars live the life of luxury and when the time for retribution arrives, they will find a luxurious hiding place somewhere or someone will offer them one. We see it here with the Clintons, Comey and Obamas and we saw it with Idi Amin. They are all cut from the same cloth. The evil will protect the evil.


32 posted on 04/13/2018 12:32:26 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: BeadCounter

While I am not sure what she is thinking, the reality is that this women was born in London. She went to Oxford, was accepted at Harvard MBA. He was a dentist until his father died just before they were married.

I do not think she needed the money. She was already wealthy. I assume that the last 18 years were spent mostly doing first wife things and raising 3 children.

I am not sure either of these two are quite what they are portrayed to be.


33 posted on 04/13/2018 12:32:51 PM PDT by poinq
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To: BeadCounter

The Saudis, Jordanians, Kuwaitis, Qataris etc etc etc..


34 posted on 04/13/2018 12:34:24 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: BeadCounter
Oh, the humanity!

Look at the map of the world. Throw a dart at it. Chances are better than 90%, that the leader of the country selected by the dart lives the same way.
 

35 posted on 04/13/2018 12:34:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: BeadCounter

Syria has been in a Civil War with Islamic Terrorists for 7+ years.

It’s gonna look a little tattered.


36 posted on 04/13/2018 12:36:19 PM PDT by WisconsinRep
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To: BeadCounter

Syrian dictator Assad, wife living life of luxury while country in tatters


In other news, water is wet.

i.e. that’s how it works. Look at Qaddafi, Saddam, etc.


37 posted on 04/13/2018 12:36:59 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: robroys woman

Isn’t Trump also living life of luxury? He’s a Billionaire after all.


38 posted on 04/13/2018 12:41:32 PM PDT by WisconsinRep
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To: WisconsinRep

Yes, the whole thing is stupid. Every country has people living in misery. And the leaders of every country live in luxury.


39 posted on 04/13/2018 12:44:14 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: WisconsinRep
p17

The Queen. I knew she was in this conspiracy.

Knew it, knew it, knew it.

And he called her Lizzy and she's getting even.

40 posted on 04/13/2018 12:45:31 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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