"Yet the man they support, Selim Idriss, the defected military man who
heads the Supreme Military Council, subsequently appeared in a video
praising the operation on the coast and claimed his fighters were
involved. Luckily for his patrons in the West, but testimony to his
impotence, too, Human Rights Watch found no evidence that he controlled
any of the groups involved and says that fighters among other groups
which might have a connection to his network did not take part in the
assault until after the killings of August 4th." (thanks Fadi--my headline above is generally derived from Fadi's post on Facebook).