I called the Syrian Embassy last week…

…to tell them I wanted the Gay Girl in Damascus found.

I was polite to the woman on the phone. It turns out the Gay Girl did not exist. She was the blogging creation of a 40 year old American man.

After “Amina’s” fraudulent disappearance, reportedly at the hands of the Syrian secret police, a real dissident Syrian blogger asked whether anyone would call the Syrian Embassy on his behalf if he should be abducted, really abducted. Good question.

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