Last week, in a fit of unbridled road rage, Suleiman al Assad – a young cousin of Syrian president Bashar al Assad – shot and killed an air force colonel over a traffic dispute . The murder of Hassan al Shaikh kicked off three days of demonstrations in the Syrian seaside city Latakia, and flung this – the hometown of the Assad clan and a regime stronghold throughout the five-year civil war – Alawi-hot spot on the map. Is this the start of a new Syrian splintering? The Britain-based Syrian ...