Saudi official media (aka my morning paper) is in no mood to accept the guy.
That may be Russia’s motivation. But China supports Syria because it wants to prevent any potential weakening of state sovereignty.
For some reason they oppose the idea that domestic oppression can justify international intervention into a state’s affairs.
He’s a trained ophthalmologist, though a bit rusty. He presumably speaks both English and Arabic well enough to work as a professional in many countries. He’s young enough he could probably get re-certified and practice for ten to twenty years.
I’m sure there are lots of countries with a physician shortage who could use a man of his skills. Someone should offer him asylum on the condition he work for a public health agency in their country. It’d be surreal but perhaps subversively poetic.
Too bad it’d probably never happen. He’ll probably try to sneak out of the country and then spend the rest of his life dodging attacks. How successfully he’ll dodge I don’t know.
And … twelve years later, Assad has finally gone, no doubt taking plenty of money with him.
I heard it was in the duodenum, but that could have been just a rumor.