Publications

Eurasia Security Watch: No. 298

September 29, 2013

Syrian refugees causing turmoil in Lebanon;

Syrian rebels relinquish opposition coalition;

Stolen U.S. military equipment in Libya in dangerous hands

Heart of Darkness: Inside Syria’s Los Alamos

September 29, 2013 Avi Jorisch Vocativ

The implications were chilling. In the summer of 2012, as murder and mayhem reigned on both sides of Syria’s civil war, someone—likely from the opposition—released a list of 32 names on Facebook. These weren’t people invited to a wedding; they weren’t members of the Syrian national soccer team; and they weren’t guests for a weekend jaunt to a fancy seaside resort in Latakia. These were people someone wanted dead.