Where's Syrian President Assad?

Where's Assad? Mystery Deepens About Syrian Leader -- FOX News/AP

BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad urged his military Wednesday to boost its fight against rebels, but his written call to arms only deepened a mystery over his whereabouts two weeks after a bomb penetrated his inner circle.

Assad has not spoken publicly since the July 18 bombing killed four of his top security officials - including his brother-in-law - during a rebel assault on the capital, Damascus. The president's low profile has raised questions about whether he fears for his personal safety as the civil war escalates dramatically.

The United States called the Syrian president a coward for marshaling his forces from the pages of the army's official magazine.

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My Comment: I suspect that he and his family are now heavily protected by hundreds of loyal Alawite security officers, and are being very low key in their travel and public appearances (which are none right now). They are also probably residing in the Presidential compound in Damascus, or in a military base in Alawite stronghold of northwestern Syria.