Syria envoy says he has had death threats

August 04, 2012 02:27

AFP reports: Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said on Friday that he and his family had been the target of death threats and had alerted US authorities.

Jaafari, whose daughter is said to have advised President Bashar al-Assad on handling the western media, has become the international face of the Syrian government as it faces mounting international condemnation over the country's bloody conflict.

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