Posted on 12/09/2024 2:48:54 PM PST by george76
To the victors go the spoilers.
When Islamist rebel forces in Syria marched into Damascus and stormed the palace of Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, they found a massive fleet of high-end cars, including Mercedes, Porches, Audis and Ferraris.
Videos shared on social media show gleeful looters touring a massive garage in the presidential palace, chock full of high-end roadsters from the deposed dictator’s private stash.
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One eagle-eyed commenter pointed to a coveted Mercedes-Benz with gullwing doors.
SUVs, motorcycles, ATVs and what appears to be an armored truck also awaited the rebels, who traipsed through the sprawling mansion taking selfies, firing guns into the air and making off with anything that wasn’t bolted down,
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Rebel soldiers found it abandoned after Assad absconded by plane to an unknown location,
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men hauling away furniture and artwork while women in full hijab picked through the dishes and bed linens.
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looters discover a bunker network hidden deep under the main structure, the concrete floors littered with what appear to be empty cigar boxes and gun cases.
“He who fears the people digs hundreds of feet underground,” the poster, Abdullah Almousa, wrote in Arabic.
The palace wasn’t the only government building to be ransacked as soldiers peeled off their uniforms and abandoned their posts.
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“The smart people did not go to Assad’s palace for chandeliers, but to the bank for cash and gold!
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The Swiss has another account to which there is nobody around to claim the money.
This is starting to remind me of Havana, 1959.
Another American neocon regime change operation - what could go wrong?
Paging Jay Leno?? Paging Donald Osborne? To the house white phone please.....
Seems like it
Almost guaranteed to go wrong.
“The Islamist guerrillas who overthrew Assad are made up in part of Al Quaeda and ISIS terrorists. Who needs that nonsense?”
The CIA and DOD? Wallstreet and the City of London?
This is how most of the ME is governed. Some rulers last longer than others. Strangely, the monarchies in the ME have tended to last longer than the “republics”, although the “presidents” tend to rule longer than the Saudi kings. Maybe handing power from brother to brother like the Saudis do is better than “electing’ presidents such as Assad and Saddam Hussein?
I call dibs on that Rolls Royce Phantom Hyperion.
IT is the way of the muzzies, chaos and death.
Assad or Zelensky? Same corruption I’m sure.
Out of the frying pan into the frying pan.
trashed in no time
You mean the Russians would get it. They ain’t letting him stay for free, if he’s actually alive.
“He who fears the people digs hundreds of feet underground“
You mean like Hamas?
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I have access to his gold but I am unable to claim it myself because I am an honest officer of the court. I need another honest individual to help me get it. I only request 20,000 bus dollars in advance and I will tell you how to claim it
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