There are continuing illegal demonstrations underway in Beirut demanding that Syria leave Lebanon, a response to the recent assassination by downtown car bomb of a popular leader ". Threatened by Israel, pressured by Lebanon, and chastised by America, Syria sought to buy some good will from its more powerful detractors. It denied Israel's claims of masterminding a terror plot; it pulled some troops back into the Beka valley and then "dropped a dime" to use a phrase that cops use when they get informants to rat out a HVT (High Value Target).
Presto, as the BBC reports, "Syria helped to capture a half-brother of Saddam Hussein accused of aiding the Iraq insurgency, reports say." This report of course will not win Damascus any friends among those battling the US occupation of Iraq.
Lebanon has awakened and is calling for freedom through protests and demonstrations. You have to be some kind of jerk to call those demonstrations illegal.
And if Syria is turning its back on America's enemies in Iraq shouldn't that be considered a good thing for Americans? Don't we want Syria to work with us instead of against us?
Given this guy and Eason Jordan one has to wonder who's side the people at CNN are really on.
(via Wizbang)