Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Osama became Sami and Farid became Caesar.
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Their photos were known as the Caesar photos.
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And when Farad was invited to speak about them in front of the US Congress in 2014 and again in 2020, both times he appeared in disguise, wearing a blue hooded raincoat with the hood pulled tight around his face.
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And he spoke only in whispers to an interpreter so his own voice wouldn't be heard publicly.
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Eventually, Congress passed a new law inspired by those photos, the Caesar Act, which massively extended sanctions on Syria.
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The country was turning into the North Korea of the Middle East.
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Those sanctions were also specifically targeted at the Syrian First Lady and her family, her father, Fawaz, mother, Sacha, and her two brothers, all British nationals.
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The US State Department said Asma's family had accumulated their ill-gotten riches at the expense of the Syrian people.
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And the Secretary of State specifically called out Asma as a notorious war profiteer.
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Osama and Farid had stopped gathering photos, but the bodies hadn't stopped accumulating.
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There's evidence that the dead continued to arrive in the yard of that hospital beneath the palace.
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And I keep coming back to one specific image from that hospital.
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Not a photo of the bodies.
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This one was of asthma.
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Asma eventually recovered from her cancer.
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But what stuck with me was in one of those PR photos from August 2018, Asma is shown sitting in a chair at Meze Hospital.
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It's one of the few times I've seen her so casually dressed in a t-shirt and joggers.
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She's smiling at Bashar, who's sitting next to her.
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And they look like a couple still very much in love, supporting each other through a health crisis.
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I remember wondering at the audacity of it.
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