The flight of Dr. General Engineer Salim Hero Idris

David Ignatious must be in tears: the man that he has been promoting as the best hope for the Syrian and Arab people, Salim Idriss, has fled the battle scene in Syria.  But the accounts in US papers (WP and NYT in particular) are quite false. Arabic newspapers added more details.  It is not that the warehouses were taken over by the Islamic Front: they were handed over according to an agreement that was supervised by the cousin of Dr. Engineer General himself (apparently, like the regime, the Syrian rebels especially the Fee Syrian Army make appointments on nepostic grounds).  And there are accounts that Gen.Dr Engineer once settled in Qatar, was ordered by the US government to go back to Syria but he chose his fancy home in Turkey instead.  Furhtermore, the contents of the US-supplied warehouses are not what US papers have reproted: apparently they include advanced weapons including Stinger missiles supplied by Gulf regimes (clealry with a nod and wink from the US government).  Basically, Obama has upgraded the weapons capability of the Bin Ladenites gangs in the Middle East region.