What if the Syrian regime crumbled today? Did the government lose control - at least briefly - when at least four of the regime's top figures were killed in a bomb attack in Damascus in July? In my opinion, it probably did.
Those officials, including the dictator's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, linked the regime's top echelons with the security apparatus in overseeing the daily repression. That chain was probably broken, for a brief period, before the embattled regime reasserted its control and the violence continued as usual.
Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/syrias-rebels-need-to-strike-at-the-regimes-backbone#ixzz2BG5GW6st
Those officials, including the dictator's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, linked the regime's top echelons with the security apparatus in overseeing the daily repression. That chain was probably broken, for a brief period, before the embattled regime reasserted its control and the violence continued as usual.
Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/syrias-rebels-need-to-strike-at-the-regimes-backbone#ixzz2BG5GW6st