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April 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Last month the Syrian
Kurdish opposition walked out amid claims that the SNC refused to include
wording about the rights of Kurds. Representing around 10 per cent of the
Syrian population, losing the Kurdish minority represents a dangerous
fragmentation of the Syrian opposition.
“The Kurdish National Council is not ready for dialogue with us at this
moment. A dialogue will only take place after their next conference, in two
or three weeks”, listed the minutes of an SNC meeting on April 4.
The continued discord highlights what activists have called a failing of the
international community to recognise the exiled SNC, circumscribing its
political clout inside Syria.
Last month the Friends of Syria group — which includes Turkey, the US,
Britain, France and Gulf states — recognised the SNC as “a legitimate
representative of the Syrian people,” falling short of recognition as the
legal government in exile they had hoped for.
“Because there wasn’t any real impetus for change from outside in the first
five-six months, that killed the opposition, made them look weak on the
Syrian street,” political activist Rami Jarrah said.
Amid political wrangling and a dwindling ceasefire, violence continued in
Syria on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported 12 deaths.
Troops backed by tanks stormed the embattled Damascus suburb of Douma,
security forces opened fire on Idlib, and at least six people were said to
have been killed in Homs.
UN monitors visited the central city of Hama and nearby Rastan accompanied by
armed rebels. But in other parts of the country armed opposition groups, in
reticence of UN envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan, hit back at the regime,
bombing a military convoy in the north of the country allegedly killing four
soldiers.
The armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad is also becoming dangerously
fragmented according to analysts. As government forces crushed rebel-held
areas of Homs and Idlib, and armed rebel groups scattered, the leadership of
the opposition’s Free Syrian Army was unable to control the 30 battalions
that it claims are loyal to Syria. Analysts from the Carnegie Endowment
think-tank report increasingly hard line Salafi elements appearing in the
armed militias and within those aligned with the FSA, such as the ‘Farouq
battalion’ that was crushed in the regime’s offensive on Baba Amr. The
Muslim Brotherhood has also reportedly entered the military fray on its own.
In an effort to formalise the militarisation of the uprising, the SNC has
sought to pay known leaders of the FSA inside the country salaries. The
reported pledge of $100 million (£62 million) from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and
the United Arab Emirates to pay has provided financial backing for the
scheme, but it remains beset by inefficiency and infighting
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