Jelena Lecic, a Croatian living in London, reports that photos claiming to be Amina Arraf are in fact her. Swiped from her FaceBook page.
The story developed as quite the tear jerker. Several diaries HERE at DKOS.
HERE is the blog "A Gay Girl in Damascus" Strong anti-Assad prose and open-hearted poetry.
Lesbian Syrian-American blogger reports the uprisings against the Assad dictatorship. Her father faces down thugs who try to kidnap her. Then finally she is taken at gunpoint from a car.
But apparently not.............................
Jelena is quite pretty. A target for identity theft, earlier, with her photos from Facebook used to depict this fictional Amina.
A cutie.
False IDs are common in Syria. Consider the nature of a regime that goes out and kills whole towns. But then there's more.
Robert Mackey at the Lede says that the writing posted on “A Gay Girl in Damascus” appeared on a blog published in 2007. It is a mixture of fact and fiction and the writer “will not tell you which is which.”
BTW: "Lieutenant Kijé" is a piece from Serge Prokofiev. The protagonist is an imaginary officer whose exploits raise the Tsar's spirits.
Then the Tsar wants to meet this paragon, so the Lieutenant simply has to die. So sad.
Whoever invented this character "Amina" is quite talented. There is poetry on the blog site. Lovely prose.
What is happening ?
No one knows. We can guess that the writer is safer than the character. Maybe not.
Anyone involved have a Dragon Tattoo ?