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June 03, 2005
Why the death of journo may shake Syria
Here's more on Kassir. An editorial in today's New York Sun—which like the WSJ continues the tradition of reporting in editorials—adds some details and some context to Kassir's murder. After arguing that Syria is behind the murder, here's the money quote:
The Syrian dictatorship is tottering and weak. President Bush has decided that Bashar al-Assad will be gone and that the route to Iran is through Syria. Someday historians will see the murder of Samir Kassir, like the recent Syrian missile attack on Turkey that the New York Times was reporting last night, as a last desperate gasp of a failing regime that realized that the mere existence of a semi-free press in a neighboring state was enough to pose a mortal threat to its own existence. It is a fact that tells much about the nature of the Syrian regime and why its end can't come soon enough.
Posted by Richard Miniter at June 3, 2005 11:31 AM