Syria was said to have launched a campaign to intimidate the regime's opposition abroad. Syrian opposition sources said agents of President Bashar Assad have been sending threats to opponents in Europe and the United States. They said the messages include e-mails that threatened to kill the children and relatives of opposition members. "The Syrian Ba'ath party secret agents are on the prowl against Syrian opposition outside Syria," the Washington-based Reform Party of Syria said. "In what seems to be a deliberate policy, RPS members are getting threatening e-mails from Syrian agents. The e-mails are threatening to kill them, their children, and members of their immediate families."
On Nov. 6, Germany arrested a Syrian embassy staffer and charged him with espionage and issuing threats against the Syrian opposition in Europe. The staffer was said to be one of scores of Syrian nationals who work for the Assad regime and ordered to locate and intimidate opposition members. |