It’d be a pity if happened to that company of – oooooh, too late:
The five Syrians pulled from their homes by secret police on the same night last year were not insurgents, spies or suspected of being disloyal to the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
Instead, they were targets in a desperate new phase of Assad’s battle to survive: the hunt for cash.
All five were executives at Syria’s second-largest cellphone company, MTN Syria, according to individuals familiar with the episode. Their arrests were part of a ruthless campaign by the president to seize MTN’s assets, along with almost every other meaningful source of revenue in Syria’s shattered economy. [WaPo]
Not only personal endangerment, but corporate as well:
MTN was ultimately brought to its knees four months ago after protracted pressure in which those arrests were followed by demands for multimillion-dollar payments, threats to revoke the company’s operating license and a dubious court ruling that put an Assad loyalist in charge of the company.
Every company that funds Republican candidates who think that any Democratic victory is questionable should read that and think about the ignominy that would go with such a failure.
