One of the complaints about Syria is that it is playing host to various nasties from Saddam’s regime. This, alas, is all too justified. Syria, after all, was the final destination of the notorious Alois Brunner, an SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer who played no small part in Nazi genocide and, in the post-war years, ended up as an adviser to the Syrian government. He is thought to have lived on in Syria at least until the 1990s. If he is still alive (Brunner was born in 1912) he may still be in Damascus today, and, would, doubtless, be good company for Saddam’s former cronies.