Many of his close friends and advisers have either left him or distanced themselves from him.” He believes that he is right and that whoever contradicts him is a traitor.
He listens to the sycophants around him who tell him ‘you are a gift from God’. “He thinks of himself as God’s messenger to rule Syria. “They think he is useless and living in a cocoon.”
“Even those who love him feel he can no longer provide security,” said Ayman Abdel-Nour, an adviser to Assad until 2007 and now an opposition figure. REUTERS/SANA/HandoutĪt its head is President Bashar al-Assad, who inherited power from his father in 2000 and who friend and opponent alike say appears increasingly detached from reality, convinced he is fighting a conspiracy against him and Syria.Īround him is a tight circle of family and clan members, and a security establishment staffed mainly by adherents of the Alawite minority to which the Assads belong, a branch of Shi’ite Islam in a country that is three quarters Sunni. A handout photo distributed by Syrian News Agency (SANA) on July 3, 2012, shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during an interview with a Turkish newspaper in Damascus.
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