Syrian Subterfuge
The Counterterrorism Blog posits an explanation for the attacks on the US embassy in Syria which resonates with my own suppositions:
According to well informed Syrian sources, today's Terrorist attack against the US embassy in Damascus is one of the "Machiavellian" Assad operations. Let's remind ourselves that the Syrian regime's senior strategists and intelligence officers were trained by the sophisticated "intox" schools of the former Soviet's KGB. One of the main tactics of this old school, refined by Hafez Assad during his rule of Syria is based on the following concept: If the equation is to your disadvantage, create a new problem, offer to solve it, obtain recognition; and by that you'd change the equation.
Read the whole thing, but the short version: the Syrian government is behind the attack. True or not? Unclear. But it's plausible.
