# Assad emails: 'Worth concideration'
**Category:** media_strategy
**Original URL:** https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/14/syria-bashar-al-assad3
**Author/source:** The Guardian
**Published:** 2012-03-14T18:22:29Z
**Why archived:** Sheherazad Jaafari advice email, useful for communications strategy and image-management themes.
**Description:** From: 	 [Sheherazad Jaafari]
Subject: 	Worth concideration
Date: 	14 December 2011 19:17:51 GMT
To: 	sam@alshahba.com
## Extracted content
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:20:26 -0800 From: [Bashar Jaafari] Subject: Re: To: [Sheherazad Jaafari] Dear Daughter ! I have just asked to send to you a BBC link related to an interview in English conducted with a so called former Syrian diplomat [XXXXXXXXXXXX], according to the reporter who did the interview with him . the reporter pretended that the syrian diplomat prefered to keep his identity anonymous " fearing for his life ". the topic of the interview was the meeting of the Security Council before yesterday . the reporter aired what I said at the Steak out addressing the UN reporters , then he asked the " anonymous diplomat to comment on what the High Commissioner for Human Rights had said as well as on my own comments . the former diplomat harshly criticized his own government ( as you will hear it from the link )accusing it of committing crimes against its own people, and then he said " I feel sorry for my colleague Jaafari for being at this position at the service of a bloodshed regime....." . The BBC World Service in London called on me yesterday and asked me to comment on the defector diplomat's remarkes against his country and against myself .I rejected the offer . i checked the voice of the " former colleague ' and could identify him beyond any doubt . [XXXXXXXXXXXX] . [XXXXXXXXXXXX] I would advise you to refer this matter to its high destination for consideration. I would recommend to deal with it very seriously because , later on , I'm quiet sure this anonymous diplomat will disclose his identity and will become out of a sudden another " star of the Satellite channels ", and that would be used as a first prove of defection in the Syrian diplomatic corps, something that it didn't happened till now .
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