If you wanted to paint a picture of bumbling Stalinist incompetence in assassinating a foreign politician, you might do worse than follow Syria's playbook. This is from Lebanese blog Blacksmiths of Lebanon:
Al Seyassah daily learned from authoritative sources in Beirut, that one of the editors of the Syrian National News Agency (SANA) placed a phone call to a pro-Syrian Lebanese newspaper at 3:05 pm on Tuesday. The caller inquired about the details of the assassination of Lebanese Minister for Industry Pierre Gemayel, raising eyebrows at the Lebanese newpaper. The timing of phone call was 55 minutes before the assassination was carried out.
Unfortunately, the news source is in Arabic only. But who doubts that Bashar really is that stupid anymore? Rather than put him in the dock as the international gangster he is, we should send him to Vienna for institutional psychoanalysis. His instinct for self-destruction beats all clinical records.
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