"One of the dissidents
who resigned, Kamal al-Labwani, accused the
leadership of the Syrian National Council of controlling the body's work while
sidelining most of its 270 members.
"There
is no council, it's an illusion," said al-Labwani, who worked for years against
the Assad family regime before being jailed in 2005. He joined the council soon
after being released in November. He
accused council chief Burhan Ghalioun and a few others of running the
organization autocratically, even comparing it to Assad's ruling Baath
party. "They
are trying to build an autocratic rule inside the council," he said. "There is
no group work. Everyone is working by himself and the whole council has not met
once.""
