Ghassan Saud and Firas Al-Shufi are both reporters at Al-Akhbar. They both knew Munaf Tlas rather well. Both agree that the real beef (or tofu) of Munaf was that he wanted to replace Maher Al-Asad in his position. Ghassan reports to me that Munaf used to spend hours raving about Hasan Nasrallah and that his wish was to have a picture taken with him. Firas reports on his FB that Munaf (who has just appeared exclusively on Al-Arabiyyah) used to say that Al-Arabiyyah (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) is worse than Yedi'ot Ahronot.
PS I should add that both Ghassan and Firas have been supporters of the Syrian regime.
PS I should add that both Ghassan and Firas have been supporters of the Syrian regime.
