Journalist Hussein Mortada :
⚠️ President Bashar al-Assad was placed under arrest in the final hours
⚠️ There are hidden matters that have not yet been revealed, and President Bashar al-Assad has not been allowed to disclose them
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Interviewer: This is not to defend anyone, of course. He (Assad) bears responsibility — maybe. But there are still hidden matters that haven't been revealed, and President Assad has not been allowed to disclose them.
In the final hours... was he silenced? Silenced by the Russians?
H. Mortada : Sometimes it happens like this: you come in now, four or five people, and tell me, “Get up, we need to leave, there's a group outside, they'll get angry.” You put me in a situation where I can't express myself, and I can't even pack my things. That’s a method.
Interviewer: Can you show us the details of the arrest incident and how it happened?
H. Mortada: I'll repeat part of what I said earlier, just to connect the story:
Who entered Damascus? Ahmad Al-Awda — he's Emirati. It is said he had Emirati and Russian backing. Ahmad Al-Awda is Russia’s man in southern Syria. He was brought into Damascus before the militants even reached the Golan or Damascus.
Alright. There was an agreement after the last Doha meeting that no entry should be made into Homs, Damascus, or the coast. The coast was supposed to be the last.
After that, there was supposed to be an Arab statement from five countries, then a statement by President Assad. All of this was destroyed.
Damascus was overthrown by inserting the Russian man into it.
A Russian officers' car came at the last moment to where President Assad was — from the palace — and they pulled him out and transferred him to the Hmeimim base under the pretext that the militants had reached Damascus and would drag his body.
They told him: "You must leave immediately — no statement, no nothing. You will direct the battle from the coast."
The plan was for the Chief of Staff and the Minister of Defense to join him and direct the battle from the coast.
Assad arrived on Saturday night or early Sunday at Hmeimim base, and after that — neither the Minister of Defense nor the Chiefs of Staff were seen again.
Then he was told: "You must go to Russia."
Interviewer: Mr. Hussein, you are talking about the final hours in Damascus. But the surrender started in Aleppo, didn’t it?
H. Mortada: Yes, of course. Or in Homs.
And if we want to talk about the south — in the south, there were four or five army divisions — well-equipped with tanks, weapons, and command structures.
Interviewer: You’re talking about the army?
H. Mortada : The army was finished.
When most army officers lose control and communication with the operations room and the general staff, and the one giving the orders becomes the Russian — through deception — there's no communication anymore.
Interviewer: Even the army commanders, did they get their instructions from the Russians or from the Minister of Defense?
H. Mortada : From the Russians.
Interviewer: And the general staff?
H. Mortada : The flaw was in the general staff. The flaw was there.
There was also a disconnect between Assad and the army.
He would give an order and be told it would be executed — but nothing was executed.
Interviewer: Mr. Hussein, when you tell this version of events, some people have questions.
First, there are divisions not under the army’s command — like the Fourth Division, the Republican Guard, and the intelligence branches. These don’t take orders from the Chief of Staff or the Ministry of Defense.
Even the 25th Division under Suhail al-Hassan didn’t fight.
H. Mortada : Suhail al-Hassan was with whom? With the Russians.
Alright — Fourth Division? Someone tells me, “Republican Guard,” someone else says, “25th Division.” All of them.
They were the first troops in Hama and the last ones in Homs, but none of them wanted to fight.
There was a method of deception, under the slogan of “repositioning,” from the time it started in Aleppo, then to Hama, then to Homs, until the Syrian army was dissolved.
Some say:
If only the Fourth Division, led by Bashar Assad’s brother Maher Assad, had fought alone, they could have resisted.
Even if a small unit from the Syrian army had fought, they could have resisted.
But once a state of collapse set in — with the infiltration, the lack of will to fight — the spirit collapsed.
Just like in Baghdad — it fell before the Americans entered it, by deception.
Damascus also fell before the militants entered it.
Let me tell you something else:
The general who was found dead in his office — in the Fourth Division — the head of security for the Fourth Division...
Interviewer: What was his name?
H. Mortada : General Ali Mahmoud, or Mahmoud Ali.
Ali Mahmoud was killed. They said it was suicide, but he was killed — because he wanted to fight.
Like I said — there are many hidden things that no one has been able to talk about until now.
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