On Sunday, the grand mufti of Syria warned the West that the Assad regime is prepared to play hardball in the event of foreign intervention.  “I say to all of Europe, I say to America, we will set up suicide bombers who are now in your countries, if you bomb Syria or Lebanon,” Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun said. “From now on an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

The cleric made his remarks while entertaining a delegation from Lebanon expressing its condolences for Hassoun’s recent loss (members of the Syrian opposition killed the state-appointed cleric’s son).