Chickenshit former Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad told basically no one he and his family were giving up the ghost and fleeing to Moscow on Saturday night as rebels flooded into the capital city of Damascus, buying him time to escape to safety since the news would have traveled fast, but also getting an unknown number of them killed after they were left behind, Reuters reports.
Assad didn’t even tell his younger brother, Maher, commander of the Styrian Army’s elite 4th Armored Division, about his exit plan, aides told Reuters. Maher flew a helicopter to Iraq and then to Russia. Assad’s cousins Ehab and Eyad Makhlouf weren’t so lucky, as sources told the wire service the two were shot dead in their car as they tried to flee to Lebanon, hours after Assad flew to a Russian military base on the Mediterranean and then to Moscow aboard one of their planes.
Now-former Prime Minister Mohammed Jalali, who apparently escaped the country as well, told Saudi state media “In our last call, I told [Assad] how difficult the situation was and that there was huge displacement (of people) from Homs toward Latakia… that there was panic and horror in the streets. He replied: ‘Tomorrow, we will see… Tomorrow, tomorrow’, was the last thing he told me.”