Michael Peel and Abigail Fielding-Smith, Assad's family picked up by west's radar, Financial Times, 27 April 2011
Source ID
SRC-034
Citation
Michael Peel and Abigail Fielding-Smith, Assad's family picked up by west's radar, Financial Times, 27 April 2011
URL or path
research/FT_Article_Assads family.jpg
Type
Newspaper article
Hierarchy tier
4
Published
2011-04-27
Accessed
2026-08-10
Snapshot
Local archive, not committed. Web version captured as a single JPEG, read as an image
Claims
CH2-001
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
RETIERED 11 August 2026 under D-028 against EVIDENCE_PROTOCOL's six-level source hierarchy. The previous value was an ad hoc quality score on an undocumented scale. Tier now records SOURCE TYPE only; how far this project has checked the document is the Status column. Previous value: tier 2. Opened 10 August 2026 and read in full. This is the article every trail behind the 60 per cent Makhlouf share runs to, and the source manuscript's account of it is confirmed line by line. The Makhlouf sentence reads: Rami, Mr Makhlouf's brother, controls parts of the economy and is widely seen as the business arm of the regime. No percentage of any kind appears in the article. The analysts quoted are Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Radwan Ziadeh of George Washington University and Nadim Shehadi of Chatham House, and none of them gives a share. One element the manuscript does not record: the article carries a comparison of extent without a quantity, describing Assad's relatives as not quite as extensive as the family of Libya's Colonel Muammer Gaddafi. That is what the article says. It is not established as the origin of the 60 per cent and must not be presented as one. CAUTION: what was opened is the Financial Times web version as captured, not the print edition of 27 April 2011. CORRECTION, 10 August 2026, found by the second reader and confirmed by the drafter against a 3x crop: the Financial Times spells it MUAMMER, and this row previously printed Muammar inside a direct quotation. Chapter 2 v2 inherited the error from this row. A misquotation propagated from the register into a chapter about misquotation. TWO FURTHER CORRECTIONS. The article quotes Tabler and Shehadi directly, PARAPHRASES Ziadeh without quotation marks, and quotes a FOURTH, unnamed analyst; describing it as quoting three analysts by name is wrong, though none of them gives a share. And the only per cent sign in the image file is 52%, the phone battery indicator in the operating-system status bar, so any absence claim must be scoped to the ARTICLE and not the file. NOTE WORTH KEEPING: the article never writes Rami Makhlouf in full. It writes Rami, Mr Makhlouf's brother, the Makhlouf being Hafez