” You would be amazed what you can grow in a petri dish ;) “
LOL!!
Point taken..... ;~)
RE: Phares on the Fighting in Lebanon [Steve Schippert]
Readers might also consider an excellent bit of analysis from Jonathan Spyer appearing in the Jerusalem Post Sunday.
Suspicions regarding Fatah al-Islam center on the fact that Shakir al-Abssi was sentenced in 2003 to three years in prison in Syria after being convicted of plotting attacks inside the country. This was an unusually lenient sentence. By comparison, for example, Syrians suspected of involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood are routinely given 12-year terms. Al-Abssi, after his release, turned up among pro-Syrian Fatah-intifada circles in Nahr al-Bared and shortly afterward emerged as the leader of the new group, Fatah al-Islam. These facts have led General Ashraf Rifi, head of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (FSI), to conclude that “this is a Syrian creation to sow [sic] chaos.” Which raises the question, why might the Syrians wish to sow chaos in Lebanon, and why now?
Why now? Why ever? That little thing called the Hariri Probe.
The link to Spyer’s piece should be at this link: http://tank.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDFlMGE1YzM1Nzc3YjE1ODk4MzU5MGVkZTU4NzkzYzI=