And so it begins... Assad cousin hanged in Latakia public square

[soandso]

He was Syrian Army.

Link to tweet

[RockRaven]

1. All of the scolds who where so disappointed at people cracking wise about the CEO

will be along shortly to police this matter's reaction as well, right?

[soandso]

2. I suspect they'll be along to give their rousing approval

[Skittles]

9. vigilante justice is wrong

happy now?

[Nimble_Idea]

11. some people like superman, others; Batman

i'll go with Batman, to each their own

[Skittles]

12. I have no fucking clue what that means

all I know is shooting someone in the back is COWARDICE

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Can Syria get their shit together and votr for Democracy?

Stay tuned.

[WarGamer]

4. dr5f

[soandso]

5. Democracy is not part of their profile or history

I have no reason to believe they'll have it with jihadists in charge, either.

[mzmolly]

6. He murdered a man in front of his children.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/middleeast/assad-cousin-road-rage-killing/index.html

Sad to see such barbarism, regardless.

[soandso]

7. Thanks for the backstory

and I see he was in prison, serving a 20 year sentence. Guess someone decided to up that to the death penalty.

[mzmolly]

8. Seems so.

Crazy times.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Disputed - this factchecking site thinks it was Ammar Al-Assad, which may have been in November

https://dfrac.org/en/2024/12/10/fact-check-viral-video-of-public-execution-misattributed-to-suleiman-hilal-al-assad/

And a source says it was a judicial execution in Daraa in November, for a murder (and the Al-Assad here was an employee of the victim, and not related to the president)

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/ 1866374997620686979

https://daraa24.org/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B9%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B6%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%8B/

(remove the space in the x.com link to get to it, but it does have the photo of the hanging, as do all these links, so that's your warning)