A Wednesday statement disavowing the rebel Syrian National Coalition (SNC) as a failed attempt at an umbrella group and calling for a new organization of rebels seems to be taking hold, with more than 30 rebel factions now officially on board in disavowing the faction.
The statement was backed by a number of al-Qaeda groups, including Jabhat al-Nusra, but seems to be gaining currency across the rebellion, as more and more groups look at the pro-US SNC as an ineffectual group with little clout on the ground.
That’s the long-standing knock on the SNC, whose leadership claims to be a “government-in-exile” but seems to spend most of its time shuffling its own self-proclaimed cabinet back and forth.
Ahmad Jabra, the latest SNC leader, angrily condemned the statement, saying that the rebels who don’t support him are plotting to “steal our revolution,” going on to claim that the Assad government was behind the factions that don’t endorse the SNC.
"…going on to claim that the Assad government was behind the factions that don’t endorse the SNC."
Right. I heard that one before from some lame-brain at the New Republic. Supposedly Assad has encouraged the Islamification of the opposition and the growing strenght of jihadi, Salafist/takfiri groups that practice cannibalism in order to discredit the peaceful operation.
Yeah, the whole civil war is a false flag operation by Assad. Sheesh!
Oh the New Republic! The ever promoter of the empire, and the sword for the righteous indignation against anything decent left on this planet.