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Arab League Needs to Tell the Truth about Syria
(Washington Post) Editorial - The hopes of Syrians for an end to the criminal repression by the regime of Bashar al-Assad now depend on the Arab League and the observer force it dispatched to the country this week. It is a very thin reed. Their chief, Gen. Mustafa al-Dabi, is a former intelligence director for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who himself is under international indictment for crimes against humanity. Dabi, who has been linked to the genocide in Darfur, told Reuters on Wednesday: "The situation seemed reassuring so far." Dabi and his observers, and the Arab League as a whole, eventually must either report the truth about the regime's continuing crimes or pretend they are not occurring.