There was a fair amount of coverage about the apparent arrest of "Amina Arraf", the pseudonym of openly gay Syrian blogger behind '
Gay Girl In Damascus,' which did a lot for getting word out about human rights issues in Syria. Except it turns out that Amina was invented by 40-year-old Tom McMaster, from Georgia.
McMaster had cultivated the identity from the University of Edinburgh, which is where he's at, but ...