THROUGHOUT Syria's uprising, a year old this week, many have pondered what is going on in the minds of Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma, once a glamourous patron of Syrian civil society. A cache of 3,000 personal emails alleged to be from the ruling couple puts paid to any view that either was seriously looking for a way out of the crisis. As security forces were killing 8,000 civilians and defecting soldiers, Mrs Assad was shopping for a $4,100 vase from Harrods, a fondue set and Christian Louboutin shoes.
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