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The murderous tyrant Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus. His regime has fallen. Terrorist groups supported by third-parties have sent Assad running as the Syrian army proved unequal to the task of defending the regime.

I should like to say Barack Obama hardest hit, but it could be Russia. It could be Iran. It’s too soon to say.

The terrorists are described in the news reports as “rebels.” Soon they will be “militants.” The prevailing forces seem largely to be backed by Turkey and they seem to be one flavor or another of Sunni Islamist terrorist.

Events are in flux. The latest dispatch from Reuters is here. Reuters reports:

Iran’s embassy was stormed by Syrian rebels following their capture of Damascus, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported on Sunday.

Syria’s army command notified officers on Sunday that Assad’s rule had ended, a Syrian officer who was informed of the move told Reuters.

But the military later said it was continuing operations against “terrorist groups” in the key cities of Hama and Homs and in the Deraa countryside.

I think you can remove the scare quotes Reuters supplies to “terrorist groups.” They are terrorist groups.

I have been following recent developments in Syria via the X account of Charles Lister. Lister is a Syria expert whom the Office of the United States Attorney for Minnesota hired to testify as its expert witness in the terrorism case here in federal court brought against “Minnesota men” in 2016. The “Minnesota men,” as they were always denominated in the media, were young Somali immigrants charged with aiding terrorism by seeking to join ISIS in Syria. I covered all three weeks of the trial for Power Line and took a look back in the post “A tale of five Muhammads,” in which I draw on Lister’s testimony.

In any event, the tweet below is Lister’s latest.

Lister posted this tweet within the past eight hours. Lister to the contrary notwithstanding, Syria may be “free” of Assad, but it is otherwise premature to declare Syria “free.”

The fall of the Assad regime is a momentous event. More than that it is probably unsafe to say this morning.