Syrian Baath party website hacked

The website of the Defense Ministry of the Syrian Baathist party was hacked on Monday. Here's what it looks like:

And here's a close -up of the part of the website that's in English:

Heh.

How to bring down Assad

Elliott Abrams said he was writing about how to avoid a civil war in Syria, but he makes a couple of key points about how to bring down Bashar al-Assad. Finally, the U.S. should be pressing the Syrian opposition-the traditional leadership inside the country (at least those still out of prison), and the new groups such as those that met recently in Turkey-to state with greater clarity their