Thursday, February 20, 2014

Liz Sly on infighting within the Free Syrian Army

"The goal, he said, is to create a new, moderate rebel army under a single command to fight both Assad’s regime and the growing threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the renegade al-Qaeda faction that has taken over much of the territory once controlled by FSA rebels in northern Syria." It is merely a reorganization and she makes no mention of the accusations and counter-accusations between the two sides and the statements by General Doctor Lawyer Engineer Musician, Salim Idriss.

PS I said and say it again: Liz Sly is my favorite Beirut-based correspondent on Syria because she gave up on trying to fake objectivity and professionalism a long time ago.  I mean that.