Gives you goose bumps--NBC's Richard Engel inside Assad's abandoned Damascus Palace--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNNT8Rb_hE

I wonder how my one time taxi driver, very reliable, originally from Syria is doing.

I lost touch with him in about 2019 at the start of the Covid crisis.

Towards the end I avoided asking him about his parents still in Damascus.

He said"It's all rubble."

He was interested in the Rohingya, so I gave him an explainer book I put together. kmk 12-12-2024