Assad's strategy is to threaten civil war in Lebanon so as to deter the international community from dislodging his regime by force, as it did with Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya. Although no firm evidence links recent events in Lebanon with Syrian skullduggery, the arrest by Syria-friendly Lebanese intellige

cyber space. Nor is it an insurmountable challenge for even a second-rate intelligence service, if it is well funded, to obtain this capacity After Moammar Gadhafi's regime fell in 2011, documents found in Libyan intelligence by the Wall Street Journal revealed that AmiSys, a subsidiary of the French company Bul

he queen's second son, is friends with a convicted sex offender, was photographed with a teenage prosti- tute, and has been accused of ties to Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan regime. The Duke of York also hosted the son of the Tunisian dictator shortly before a popular uprising drove him from power — and the bui