Keep looking over your shoulder, Mr Assad

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Disaster came worryingly close to the Assad cabal yesterday, when an extremely well informed suicide bomber knew exactly where a crisis cabinet meeting was being held in what should have been one of Syria's safest places, the Department of the Interior HQ. Yet somehow they got through and took out the defence minister and Assad's own brother-in-law.

There seems to be a growing consensus that the situation in Syria is gradually unravelling, and that it won't be too long before Russia and China tire of their "allies" and cut them loose. And while the moneyed middle classes of Syria may be quaking in their boots (and remember, many of these are Christians, who are among the biggest land and property owners in Syria), I suspect for millions of ordinary citizens, it can't come a day too soon...