`Abdul-Halim Khaddam

So this most corrupt individual was on Al-Arabiyya TV (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law).  This man is so hated in Syria for his dishonesty and corruption (every wealthy Lebanese politician has bought a share of `Abdul-Halim Khaddam but none as big as Hariri's share who "employed" his two sons), that supporters of the Syrian National Council in Syria (and some outside like Ghalyun himself) refused to include him in their front despite Saudi/Hariri pressures.  The Ikhwan is still reeling from the PR problem that was caused from their alliance with him after his "defection".  Among the things he said was that he started thinking about defection in the 1970s: so he waited some 30 years or more?  So he thought about it in the 1970s, and then the massacre of Hamah came and he felt a strong bond with the regime because he was a full supporter of the massacre and there are still interviews with him about that era.  He also told lovely stories about loyalty of the ill-cited Rafiq Hariri and was a useful tool he was for the Syrian regime and how the lousy Hafidh Al-Asad used his powers to end a Lebanese labor strike to support his client, Hariri.  And then the Hariri machine wants to sell me stories about the tale of sovereignty and freedom by that corrupt Rafiq.  Go fly a kite.