Two days before the Syrian military is supposed to withdraw its heavy artillery from cities and four days before the full scale ceasefire is to begin, it already looks unlikely, with top rebel officials saying that the plan is “doomed” to fail.
The comments come after Syrian President Bashar Assad demanded that the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the top rebel combat force, offer a written pledge to participate in the ceasefire. The FSA leadership has ruled out giving any such guarantee.
Assad’s move was somewhat of a last minute change, but not a big one, since naturally the Annan plan for a ceasefire rested on the assumption that both sides would halt their offensives against one another.
Interestingly, Free Syrian Army spokesmen are continuing to insist that the organization will
honor the ceasefire. They are providing no indication why they refuse to put it in writing, however.
The move is the latest in a series of international efforts to get the two sides to the negotiating table. Neither side has appeared very willing to do so, but the Assad regime has agreed in principle on some occasions to talks, only to see them spurned by the rebels.
NO really…, thats not possible, these people are peace loving and caring people, they are not fighting to have a war in Syria, they are getting paid to have a war for their masters paying them to implement their kind of democracy, like in Saudi Arabia or Turkey or even Jordanian with a new Kings and 74 queens from England to Sweden to French presidential palace to whoever, after all these people are for democracy and democracy alone even if the matter is based on destroying and having any respect for democracy and its principals. LOOK people, we said that from the beginning, these people are not interested in having any peace in Syria, they just get paid and on the payroll to continue, in the other hand Israel is preparing itself to invade Lebanon which if that happens then Paul Wolfowitz idea is life and doing well again, it was meant to be done during Bush regime, he couldn't finish it, now is up to Obama – Hillary to either finish the job or let Mitt Romney continue with it.
"Syrian Rebels: Annan’s Peace Plan ‘Doomed.’"
Yes, of course, they are doomed. The FedGov-Zionist League to Promote Misery and Suffering has long decreed that Assad must go. Hilarious, that paragon of diplomatic virtue, tellingly declared some time ago that any failure of the cease-fire would lead to regime change in overdrive.
As long as america continues to aid and abet these insurgents there will be no peace in the middle east eventually they will be run out as they were in viet nam/south america and the Caribbean once the us dollar will no longer be used for oil transactions it will cease being the world`s currency and we all know what that spells for america.
Of course it is doomed, if "peace loving armed opposition" say so. It would be suicide for Assad and his supporters if they agree with this last clone of Rambuillet Accord with Serbs before "defensive alliance" NATO attacked Yugoslavia. Serb yoo did not want to commit suicide outright and how they ended up? They were "suicided".
I guess it has had all the time same meaning in this case too – you will get the peace only for unconditional surrender. This is bullying in the finest. It is using Shiite – Sunni divide fr their own purposes. That is why the main sponsors of "our good rebels" in Syria are again Sunni states (involving in the Libya civil war): Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar. And US + EU on behalf of Israel. .
They must have gotten a fresh shipment of supplies during the lull in fighting. Ergo the return to the belligerent attitude. Annan simply bought them time. But that isn't anything new. From doing nothing to stop the Iraqi Invasion or helping to protect Rwandans from massacre this two legged rat is not to be trusted.