JBlog Central - The Jewish Blog Network | Are Syria, Hizballah, and Iran Threatening to Assassinate Americans Starting with the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon?

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Barry Rubin

The Lebanese have a saying: Syrian officials cannot open their mouths without making threats of violence. That regime uses repression and torture at home while systematically sponsoring terrorism abroad: against Lebanese moderates; American soldiers and Iraqi civilians; Israel through Hamas and Hizballah and many other groups; and against U.S. citizens or soldiers in Lebanon. There really is a profoundly thuggish element in this dictatorship. Syria has also used the threat of violence very effectively against UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, with Syrian officials periodically hinting that something bad will happen to the peacekeeping forces if they give Hizballah a hard time or probe too carefully into Syrian arms’ smuggling into Lebanon.

Now this technique is being turned against the Obama era United States, during a forum in Alaska, of all places. Here’s Ahmad Salkini, political advisor to Syria’s ambassador in Washington:

"A previous administration...