Media & Mass Communications: Efforts by embattled Arab leaders to control news flow fail

The Syria cyber activist Rami Nakhleh who is now in Beirut said he escaped Syria on a motorcycle. (File Photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
SPECIAL TO AL ARABIYA

Osama Bin Laden’s assassination by US Special Forces on May 1 offered embattled Arab leaders such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a welcome reprieve in the past week.

Men like Mr. Assad, Libyan leader Co…