Wait: when Gen Dr Engineer Pharmacist Salim Idriss was the "leader", we were regaled with articles about his great leadership. Now that he is sacked, you get this:

"Idriss, much like the SMC, was never seen as an effective military leader but rather as a key conduit for lethal and nonlethal aid and money from outside backers, mostly Persian Gulf Arab states, to some of the rebel groups trying to oust Assad."