Via FLC
Come to read the WSJ (alas, yes, the WSJ) one gets the impression that Imad M runs a Stasi-like embassy! Thankfully, one is comforted by the fact that this is the WSJ, and Malas writing on Syria!
River to Sea
"... Mr. Moustapha is related through marriage to the deputy chief of staff of the Syrian army, Gen. Assef Shawkat, President Assad's brother-in-law. Mr. Moustapha has been a large presence on Washington's diplomatic circuit in recent years. He has hosted dinners for prominent politicians and journalists and written a blog commenting on everything from art and Mozart to the George W. Bush administration's alleged foreign-policy blunders.
This year, Mr. Moustapha has taken his message of support for Mr. Assad to Arab-American communities in Detroit, Atlanta and Cleveland. He has stressed to audiences the need for political reform in Syria, but also that efforts by the Syrian diaspora to challenge Damascus's writ is treachery and places them on equal footing with Zionists, a serious charge as Syria is technically at war with Israel.
"You are the ones that show the true face of Syria, not those other traitors that go to U.S. Congress demanding Congress to impose sanctions on your nation, on our nation," Mr. Moustapha told a gathering of pro-Assad supporters in Washington, according to a video posted on YouTube..."
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