Sunday, July 08, 2012

Qadri Jamil and the fuel shortage in Syria

From Akram, the Angry Arab chief correspondent in Syria:  "In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Syrian Minister of Domestic Commerce, Qadri Jamil, who leads the "Popular Will Party", a self-described opposition party, ignored the most suffocating crisis the Syrian people is witnessing: the fuel shortage. I was wrong:

Yesterday, Mr. Jamil put an end to a series of rumors sweeping the desperate Syrian people about the imminent arrival of Russian and Iranian gas tankers (Arabic) when he acknowledged that the gas crisis is basically unresolvable. In an interview with Al-Ba'ath newspaper (Arabic), Qadri Jamil called the citizens to adapt with the crisis adding that this crisis is, partly, due to who he called bastards: the corrupts in his own ministry and the private sector distributors of the Gas.

He said that the solution is in the hand of the citizens themselves who should be aware of their rights calling them to organize themselves and defend their interests (sic)."