asma have been prisonortrayedes representing the new syria. not anymore. brian todd spoke to someone who once worked for the syrian first lady. she is photographed consoling families of deceased soldiers and she visits victims of the war her husband fights so ruthlessly. in a glowing profile vogue magazine called her a rose in the desert and abruptly pulled the piece off the web. these are the contradictions of asma al-assad, married for a dozen years to syria s embattled dictator. how does she rationalize this? i think it would be very hard for her to do that. i think she is standing by her man. she threw her lot in with bashar a long time ago. he knows asma al-assad and worked with her at a charity syria and believes she understands the gravity of what s going on there. in an interview with cnn two years before it started, she