The crowd surged forward, thousands cheering, waving and jostling their way around Damascus’ Al Ashmar Square, all positioning themselves for the best view of a hanging. People in Tadamon have a nickname for the toothbrush-mustached henchman: “Syria’s Hitler.” “This man, he and his people, they were animals,” said Majed Shaaban, 32, who works for a cleaning services company. “If he …
