I was not amused to read that the "Higher State Security Court in Syria"--don't you hate that name itself--has exonerated Syrian journalist (Damascus correspondent for Al-Hayat) Ibrahim Humaydi (because he should not have been put on trial, and made to suffer in the first place). He was accused of printing "untrue information." For that accusation, Humaydi served time in jail. (When I asked him last summer about the duration of his prison sentence, he answered me in days, hours, and minutes.) Humaydi was arrested because he published an article in Al-Hayat in which he said that the Syrian government planned to build "camps for Iraqi refugees" prior to the US war in Iraq. Go figure.