Bashar al-Assad likes Chris Brown music

Emails belonging to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and those close to him were intercepted by opposition group "Supreme Council of the Revolution," as reported yesterday by Erica Ritz on the front page.

The emails show a ton of money was spent by Assad on Amazon.com and iTunes. What kind of music was he putting on his iPod?

[T]here is an eclectic mix of artists from the 1990s British duo Right Said Fred to the US singer Chris Brown.

You'll recall Chris Brown is the R&B singer who beat up his ex-girlfriendRihanna and also broke a window out of anger at the "Good Morning America" studio in New York.

And this was Right Said Fred.