President of Syria (The Longest Night)
The President of Syria led his country during the early 2000s. He was described as a dictator.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
The President led Syria like a dictatorship.
At some point during the 2000s, he was overthrown in an invasion of Syria by the United Kingdom and United States of America. According to Colonel Emily Chaudhry, he was accidentally killed by the occupying forces. Power over Syria was subsequently handed to the United Nations.
Colonel Robert Dalton defended how he "overthrew a dictator", considering him to have been a threat "to democracy and the entire West[ern world]". Emily nicknamed him "the top bloke". (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
The dictator described in The Longest Night is clearly intended to be a fictional stand-in for Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq who himself was overthrown in an invasion in 2003. However, unlike the DWU Syrian dictator, Saddam was not killed in an accident, but rather executed in 2006, just over a year after The Longest Night was released in 2005.
In the real world, Bashar al-Assad was president of Syria at the time The Longest Night takes place, having come to power in 2000 following the death of his father. Assad would remain in power until he was was overthrown during the Syrian Civil War in 2024.
