Syria: Round up the Usual Suspects

So you're Bashar Assad and the latest UN report on Hariri's murder is due soon. You are increasingly isolated by major powers on the UN Security Council. And to top it off, a group of uppity Lebanese and Syrian intellectuals have launched a petition calling for an end to Syrian meddling in Lebanon.

What to do? Do you play the softie like your dad's old buddy Muammar and make nice with the US? Or do you react instinctively and flex your muscles? Evidently the latter, for it's the latest round of round up the usual suspects:

Human rights lawyer Anwar Bounni gets nailed again, prominent intellectual Michel Kilo (a moderate) get thrown in the slammer for helping draft the offending petition, and communist organizer Fateh Jamous also goes "au violon" upon his return from a trip to Europe. They can all hang out with Ali Abdullah, who has been held largely incommunicado since March along with his two sons.

Quoth Ammar: "As an activist, one who was inspired by none other than Michel Kilo himself to shake down his bohemian lethargy and seek to become more involved in pubic concerns, I have to say that the least we can do at this stage is to protest loud enough so that Kilo et al are not left forgotten."

At least. The Assad regime will be quite content if we stay silent.

Comments

[Free Syria]

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[Yazan]

You forgot Kamal Labwani.. ;), he was arrested as he returned from his American tour, that's basically the leaders of most of the Syrian opposition branches, The kurds are already in jail, and Islamics too... so hurray for the regime of reform.