Wednesday, January 15, 2014

He's our SOB

Depressingly, entirely predictable, via Wall Street Journal --

European intelligence agencies secretly met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's delegates to share information on European extremists operating in Syria, the first known encounters since withdrawing their ambassadors.

Bashar al-Assad is running the 1980s Saddam Hussein playbook to perfection.

UPDATE: The story now has wide circulation e.g. BBC