The Ali Mamluk story in Daily Telegraph

Notice that the story has no sources except a palace source who is unidentified.  But this is how the Western media works on Syria: this story is not original. It has been aired before on Saudi/Hariri/Hariri tabloid media on the internet, and then it gets picked up by Western media, and then Arab media republish, and it becomes a solid story.  Journalism at its best.