According to an unconfirmed source, Baby Assad called Hamas leaders into his office and told them to set Gilad Shalit free.
They refused.
According to the report, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal was ordered by Assad to release kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
The report, which so far does not have confirmation in other sources, says that Mashaal and other Hamas top figures rejected Assad’s demand, and left Damascus for Algeria.
[…] A few days ago, the Lebanese Al-Nahar newspaper reported of estimates that Mashaal left Syria for an Arab country in North Africa, the name of which was not mentioned. The paper said that senior organization members were taking increased precautions for fear that they will be targeted.
According to the report, Mashaal and his people left Damascus for fear they will be hurt, but the PNN report shed new light on the Hamas members’ departure from Damascus and on their relations with the Syrian president.
Let me reiterate that the news article says these reports are unconfirmed.
If, however, they turn out to be true, then the IAF buzzing Assad’s summer home definitely got the message across. That, and the back-channel warnings to Syria from the U.S.
Either way, the Dorktator is in big trouble, and I think he’s beginning to realize that.
You can’t set the dead, free.
But politicians are coming out of the woodwork, here. Including Haim Ramon. So there must be advantages to keeping the myth alive?
Anyway, IF Shalit is still alive, at least all the overhead noises are rattling the hamas-tin-ians. And, this would give him hope.
While it is assinine to move the IDF into any other mode than what they are doing now. Which is keeping headlines at bay accusing them of attrocities, because they have so much fire power.
The American military “suffers” the same fate. Because the MSM is gonna target them. And, they do.
So, that’s the purpose of headlines. To keep the girly-boys in the MSM confused.
While the hamas terrorists are all holed up, too. Even with their cell phones on off.
Tourism business must be very bad, now, in ramallah. Given the real costs of this war a slightly different take than the one you’d read in the newspapers.