Bashar al-Assad instructs his pictures not to be hanged on buildings

In a remarkable development which indicate the attitude of the new stage of rule under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, well-informed sources in Damascus said that according to a "note" from the Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa Miro, a decision was circulated to all the state's establishments to "stop printing pictures to Lt. Gen. Bashar al-Assad and to ban pending big pictures for him on the buildings."