Syria's Assad Panics

The UN team investigating the Hariri assasination is getting very close to the Syrian regime.

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report the Assad regime is in a panic as the UN team’s findings on the murder case come closer to Damascus. In Beirut, the specter of civil war hovers as Syrian agents and Hizballah officers are seen handing out weapons to Muslims – the first sign that Assad has decided to react to the threat closing in on him by igniting fresh civil bloodshed.

The sense in Washington and Paris is that both governments are resolved to bring the Assad regime to an end.

And it will come none too soon if and when it does.