Is Bashar al-Assad's 11-year-old son daring the US on Facebook to attack Syria?

While most Syrians in Damascus stock up on food fearing a military strike by the US, the 11-year-old son of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has allegedly put up a post daring the US to attack the country. The post allegedly written by Hafez al-Assad was ’liked’ and featured comments on by several users, who were reportedly the children and grandchildren of other senior members of the government. “I just want them to attack sooo much, because I want them to make this huge mistake of beginning something that they don’t know the end of it,” he wrote. [caption id=“attachment_1073063” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Bashar al-Assad. AFP image[/caption] A report in the New York Times points out that it is impossible to confirm whether the account belongs to Hafez al-Assad. The New York Times pointed out that among those who liked the post, two children of them seem to belong Deputy Vice President Mohammed Nassif Khierbek and three children of a former deputy defence minister, The writer of the post listed himself as a graduate of the Montessori school in Damascus, the same school which the Assad children attend, according to a no longer visible  Vogue article from 2011. Foreign Policy has also pointed out that the profile’s picture of the person who posted on Facebook is from a professional photograph used by the Assad family. [caption id=“attachment_1073073” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A screengrab of the Facebook update.[/caption] What may hint that its fake is the fact that the user’s profile lists him as an employee of the football club FC Barcelona and his college as the University of Oxford. However, the New York Times dismisses this as something that could be the result of the imagination of an ambitious 11-year-old. Read excerpts below: “[The United States] may have the best army in the world, maybe the best airplanes, ships, tanks than ours, but soldiers? No one has soldiers like the ones we do in Syria. America doesn’t have soldiers, what it has is some cowards with new technology who claim themselves liberators…What did Hezbollah have back then? Some street fighters and some small rockets and a pile of guns, but they had belief, In theirselves and in their country and that’s exactly what’s gonna happen to America if it chooses invasion because they don’t know our land like we do, no one does, victory is ours in the end no matter how much time it takes.” Read the full New York Times report here.