ESPIONAGE: Syrian Immigrant Sentenced For Spying On Behalf of Syria. “Eighteen months for basically signing the death warrants of dozens of people in Syria? You can bet that the families in Syria of those dissidents suffered death or imprisonment at best at the hands of Assad’s thugs in the secret police. And it wouldn’t have surprised the Justice Department if Soueid had been allowed to continue his activities that he would have eventually gotten around to assassinating some of the leaders of dissident organizations in America. . . . There is no word on progress arresting Soueid’s accomplices so we must assume they, and others, are out there keeping tabs on Syrian dissidents in America while under control of the Syrian secret police.”