I know that Brian Whitaker gets his news on the Middle East from Al-Arabiyya (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law), but in the Arab world the station and its website are regarded as nothing less than a stupid sensational unprofessional website. It has been publishing what it claims are documents on Syria: but its intelligence service and its forgerers are as dumb as the Saudi princes who run them. Just look at this alleged document and judge for yourself.
PS I should mention that the Persian in the letter is far worse than my Persian.
