Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Where is Imad Moustapha?

"...Secondly, when the State Department wanted to call a Syrian official to task, they had to settle for Zouheir Jabbour, the deputy chief of mission. Where is Syrian Ambassadar Imad Moustapha? On vacation, apparently -- where he has been since this crisis broke last week. As we're in a particularly fraught point in the U.S-Syrian engagement process, this is a strange point for Syria's top envoy in Washington to be taking a breather..."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe he was told to stay on vacation. Perhaps sending the deputy chief of mission was meant to suggest to Washington that these really pathetic claims are of no interest to Damascus. What do the Americans expect when they demean themselves by protesting at Syria's alleged "intent"? A full-press arse-licking from Damacus? Washington is populated by Netanyahu's toy poodles.

Anonymous said...

The day the whole thing broke out Imad was in D.C. I spotted him at an embassy event. Don't know when/why he ended up leaving but just to throw it out- he was around for the beginning of this mess!