By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
International envoy Kofi Annan said Monday he was "gravely concerned" about the escalation of fighting in Syria, citing the shelling of opposition areas in central Homs province and reports of mortar, helicopter and tank attacks near the Mediterranean coast.
If the Syrians had the chance, he said, they would "treat us the same way they treat their own people."
