Is Syria's regime spreading turbulence as a survival tactic? | Simon Tisdall

By stoking conflict in Lebanon and elsewhere Assad is raising the price neighbouring countries must pay for his overthrow The assassination of the Lebanese intelligence chief, General Wissam al-Hassan, has stoked fears that the Syrian regime, with its back to the wall, is deliberately trying to "internationalise" the civil war as a means of ensuring its survival. President Bashar al-Assad is