AP<\/a>} Eyewitness accounts are difficult to verify since journalists have largely been banned from entering the country.<\/p>\nNot that they’d really want to be there: when the tanks roll in, electricity and telecommunications are cut, and those trapped report being too scared to go outside for food or water for fear of being mistaken for a protester and shot.<\/p>\n
Odd from “a\u00c2\u00a0precise man who takes photographs and talks lovingly about his first computer,” but maybe we’ll get to those little discrepancies and a review of the best Syrian restaurants in London when President al Assad’s GQ profile comes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, well, well. We won’t believe it until we see the Vogue write-up on what she wore on the private jet out of Damascus, but according to The Telegraph, Syria’s First Lady Asma al-Assad is in London (she is a dual citizen of Britain, where she was born, and Syria) with her children. Arab news organizations claim that she may have been there for 3 weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5500,5948,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19842,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions\/19842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}