President Bashar Assad

President Bashar Assad: Mother Superior Agnes-Mariam of the Cross has thrust herself into the role of go-between and publicist, arranging ceasefires, organizing pro-government media trips and conducting speaking tours as perhaps the countrys most prominent critic of the uprising against President Bashar Assad , according to The Star. She is so despised by the opposition that even acts of seeming goodwill are criticized, such as arranging a rare truce that allowed thousands to leave a blockaded town and BEIRUT Amid Syrias ferocious civil war, a nun has emerged as an unlikely power broker and figure of controversy. Anti-government activists scathingly call her Assads nun for claiming a chemical attack that killed hundreds was exaggerated, and for saying rebels used kidnapped babies in massacres that were blamed on Syrian forces. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.