The Islamists’ virtual takeover of he Syrian National Coalition (SNC) at its meeting last month was expected to effectively end the divisions in the rebel lobbying group, albeit not in a way many Western nations were comfortable with. The divisions, however, seem to have remained and even grown in the new meeting.
That’s because despite the Islamists holding a large number of seats in the 70-member group they belong to several different factions, and today’s efforts to form a “government-in-exile” to rule rebel-seized lands has failed.
Deals were so remote that the SNC President Moaz Alkhatib left mid-conference to go fundraising in Qatar, and several of the key factions didn’t even nominate anybody for the position of prime minister in exile.
Indeed, the only nominee that was even suggested for the position was Riyad Hijab, who was the actual prime minister of Syria for a little over a month last summer before defecting. Before that he had served as Agriculture Minister.
What a nonsense headline. Antiwar is part of the war mongering theater-piece providers who are constructing an artificial domestic freedom-fighter story in order to cover a long planned war of the USA which hired mercenaries from virtually any Arab countries and Arabs living NATO states.
All are paid mercenaries paid by secret services of NATO countries or Saudis or Qataris. Some are just criminals wanting to use their chance to get rich by looting Syrian civilians enabled by this guerrilla war, some are the brainwashed Islamist extremists that were created by USA and the Saudis (those even declare to rise the Al Qaida flag on the Whitehouse soon), some others believe in the false flag operation of NATO death squads, who killed civilians and children and did blame the Syrian Army or Assad having done this.
Proof: http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons-…
Jason, you're mixing up two different anti-Syria groups. The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) began meetings in Istanbul on Saturday in their second attempt to establish a transitional government in rebel-held parts of Syria.
The group you're referring to in your opening remarks is the Supreme Military Council.