Report: Syrian rebels foil Assad family's escape
Asma Assad, pictured dressed in black in August 2010, was reportedly intercepted enroute to an airport in Damascus and prevented from fleeing the country. Photo Credit:AP
The sources claimed that Asma Assad, her children, Bashar Assad's mother and his cousin were all in a convoy on the way to the airport when rebel forces under the command of a former senior officer in the Syrian army blocked their path.
After heavy exchanges of fire, the presidential security forces managed to get the convoy back to the presidential palace. The opposition sources alleged that Assad's security forces pursued the deserter general, Mahmoud Halouf, former head of the Palestine branch of Syrian intelligence.
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