[kristinn]

I've asked the mods to pull this thread from Breaking News as the report is not yet confrmed elsewhere. The Twitter account may be a hoax. If so, they put a lot of work in to it. The list of Twitter accounts it follows is what one would expect for a foreign government press account.

[Fractal Trader]

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-bunch-of-people-are-getting-duped-by-this-fake-twitter-account-thats-saying-syrian-president-assad-is-dead-2012-8