Mr. Riyad Shaqfah (or Riyad Piece)

This dude is of course the leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.  There are reports I have received from Syrians (including some in the secular opposition) that while he led the rebellion in Hamah in 1982, he was engaged in sectarian killings.  Of course, when we raise the worry that sectarian killing may occur we speak from experience: the lousy Ikhwan did engage in sectarian killings in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  The regime responded with its typical savagery and Rif`at Al-Asad (being promoted now as the democratic crusader of Syria in Saudi channels) led the brutal assault on Hamah.  So Riyad Shaqfah (or Riyad Piece, to translate his name) said the other day that he calls for Turkish military intervention in Syria.  But his deputy told the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, that Mr. Riyad Piece did not mean that he wanted Turkish military intervention when he called for...Turkish military intervention.  I kid you not.