According to reports from Syrian dissidents, the FBI is conducting an investigation into claims that the Syrian government is behind efforts to intimidate critics of the regime inside the United States.
Though the FBI declined to confirm the investigation, Syrians say they have been questioned by the bureau about whether or not they had been contacted and who they thought might be behind it.
Three dissidents who met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month claimed to have received death threats and that the Syrian state media aired photographs of them and condemned them as “traitors.”
The US summoned the Syrian ambassador last month over claims that his aides were filming protesters in an effort to “intimidate” them. Though it seems par for the course for the regime it, like so many other efforts, seems to be failing, as public condemnation of them is only growing.
It could also mean that the FBI is covertly collecting information to see whether or not Syria's Asad has agents in the US, within the Syrian-American community, who may pose a threat to the US should it impose more sanctions or support a NATO invasion of Syria.
"We're from the government and we're here to help you."
So, suddenly the FBI is investing manpower to investigate threats AGAINST Arabs in the US?
"Though the FBI declined to confirm the investigation, Syrians say they have been questioned by the bureau about whether or not they had been contacted and who they thought might be behind it."
Right.
It sounds like, "Has anyone given you anything to carry on to the plane?"
You couldn't have more obvious war propaganda than this evil Ditz. Why is he still posting at Antiwar? How classic is this accusation of 'terrible Syrian Cells in the Heimat'?
Or "how do you feel about Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights?"; etc