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"Lunedì 23 maggio 2022, intorno alle 4:00, Mu'taz Jaber (20) e Mahmoud Jaber (23) stavano tornando a casa. Quando hanno raggiunto un posto di blocco militare vicino alle loro case nel quartiere di #Jaber, 2 soldati li hanno arrestati. ⬇2

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Hanno percosso i due, li hanno perquisiti e ammanettati.
Dopo circa mezz'ora, i soldati hanno liberato loro le mani ordinando di rimanere fermi. Mentre i 2 erano trattenuti al posto di blocco, il cugino di Mu'taz, 'Alaa Abu 'Odeh (26), è transitato per andare al lavoro. ⬇3
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Chances are Rami #Makhlouf's life isn't in danger whatever may happen next . He's blood, after all.
The fall of the #Jaber Brothers, whom #Damascus perceived their actions as 'treason' (punishable by death), may be the most recent example.
The Jaber Brothers, once #Syria’s biggest tycoons and most powerful militia leaders, fell precipitously once they crossed red lines.
Tied to the #Assad family through marriage likely saved their lives and their ultimate downfall was limited to public disgrace & financial ruin.
The #Makhlouf saga is reminder that no matter how big a whale you are in #Syria, the megalodon is the apex predator.
Pieced together through insiders, at various intervals, this is the tale of the the fall of the Jaber Brothers, the ‘frog(s) that wished to be as big as the ox’.
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#Damascus source view on the #Makhlouf saga:
“Rami's issues are with Maher Al-Assad and his frontmen, not with the first lady”
Source speculated that the much-publicised spat may be resolved in coming days, though he clarified that this isn't based on any concrete info
Going back to Aug 2019, he explained that in order for Maher to rid of #Makhlouf and replace him in the shadows without much popular backlash, he had to first isolate him from his support base. Therefore, his charities and the Boustan paramilitary forces had to be neutralised.
However, completely shutting down an organisation distributing aid, helping and hospitalising citizens would have incurred the wrath of the people against authorities and those perceived behind the clampdown. Therefore, the charity should still operate but under “new management”.
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