Blowing up the Death Star

From Foreign Policy

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Blowing up the Death Star

Syria's rebels score a direct hit.

BY MITCHELL PROTHERO | JULY 18, 2012

 

BEIRUT – No one really saw this coming. That is, no one except for the handful of Syrian rebels who executed the startling July 18 bombing in Damascus that claimed the lives of Syria's top intelligence and security officials. But the shockwaves of this assassination have already reverberated across the Middle East, leading political players of all stripes to contemplate the possibility of President Bashar al-Assad's imminent demise.