They wanted to get to Egypt, but the attempt failed.
The wife and daughter of one of the cousins of the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad, whose regime was overthrown by rebels, were arrested with fake passports in the capital of Lebanon.
This is reported by the Associated Press with reference to Lebanese law enforcement and security officials.
We are talking about the wife of Duraid Assad – the son of former Vice President of Syria Rifaat Assad, Bashar Assad's uncle – Rasha Hazem and their daughter Shamsa. They were smuggled into Lebanon, where they were scheduled to fly to Egypt.
According to officials, Rifaat had flown out the day before on his real passport.
Rifaat Assad, the brother of Bashar's father Hafez Assad, led an artillery unit that shelled the city of Hama, killing thousands.
Intense clashes between rebels and Syrian forces began on November 27. The offensive was launched by the Syrian Revolutionary Forces in response to months of continuous attacks on civilians by the Assad regime in Aleppo province.
Assad's forces lost control of Aleppo. It was later reported that the Assad regime had lost the city of Hama, the fifth largest in the country. And already on December 8, the Assad regime fell after the opposition attacked the capital Damascus.
Assad's family left the country on December 7. Russian special services had to hide the operation to remove the Syrian leader. His escape from Damascus was accompanied by news about the disappearance of the Il-76T aircraft signal from monitoring radars. The loss of the aircraft signal, according to Ukrainian intelligence, was a planned move.
It is known that Assad and his relatives are in Moscow.
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