Noose Tightens Around Damascus for Hiriri Assassination

A Syrian national has been arrested in France in connection with the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik al-Hariri, and this week a UN report is “expected to implicate Syrian officials in [the] assassination that plunged Lebanon into its worst security crisis since a 1975-1990 civil war.” And Jeffrey Gedmin, director of the Aspen Institute Berlin, reports that it’s a good thing Syrian democracy is thriving-“in exile.”