lies of the Syrian regime

"The government also said, in a statement on the state-run news agency SANA, that political opposition groups were free to enter the country to take part in a national dialogue aimed at creating a transitional government — and that they would be free to leave the country as well."  We have heard about those lousy assurances before.  Months ago, the Syrian regime gave similar assurances to a group of Syrian opposition figures, and once they entered, a bunch of them were kidnapped by goons of the regime, including the leftist `Abdul-`Aziz Al-Khayyir, who still languishes in a jail in Mazzah.