Pelosi's Common Ground With Assad, Ahmadinejad

Real Clear Politics ^ | May 30, 2007 | Jack Kelly

[bamahead]

Jihadists affiliated with al Qaida have been entering Lebanon from Syria, and now constitute about half the fighters battling the Lebanese army in a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern city of Tripoli, the commander of Lebanon's internal security forces told the Washington Times.

"The head of Fatah al Islam, Shakir Absi, was in the Syrian air force before being released from a Syrian jail and sent to Lebanon by the Syrian military intelligence," sources in the Reform Party of Syria told the Middle Eastern News Line (MENL).

Syria's strategy is to distract and weaken the Lebanese army to make it possible for the terror group Hezbollah to seize control of Lebanon later this summer, said Lebanese-American Walid Phares in an analysis for the Counterterrorism Blog.

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Ms. Pelosi's embrace of the Syrian dictator "made the regime feel that Americans were divided on how to deal with Syria," said a human rights advocate interviewed by reporter Katherine Zoepf. "This sends a message to the regime that the pressure is off, that it can do what it likes."

Shortly after Ms. Pelosi left Damascus, Syria's best known human rights lawyer, Anwar al-Bunni, was arrested on a trumped up charge. He reportedly has been tortured.

[TLI]

Upon her return from Syria, Ms. Pelosi expressed a desire to meet with Mr. Assad's senior partner in the axis of evil, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Tehran Nancy?

[ClearCase_guy]

Shakir Absi, was in the Syrian air force before being released from a Syrian jail and sent to Lebanon by the Syrian military intelligence

There seems to be a couple of steps missing in this progression.

[Dick Bachert]