Syria’s Rebels Feel Abandoned

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) as they speak to the media before their meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria, in Geneva September 12, 2013. REUTERS-Larry Downing

Syria’s Rebels Feel Hung Out to Dry by U.S.-Russia Deal -- Time

In the early afternoon of Sept. 14, a stout, square-shouldered man in his mid-60s, wearing a dark suit, gleaming black tie and a thick, neatly trimmed mustache, stepped off the escalator that had just conveyed him to the first floor of the Wyndham Petek, an upscale hotel on the outskirts of Istanbul, and disappeared into a small meeting room amid a tight cordon of bodyguards.

By the time he re-emerged, some 15 minutes later, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had announced a deal to secure Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons. Any chance of American air strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, at least for the time being, was lost.

The stout, mustachioed man was General Salim Idris, commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), and he had followed Kerry and Lavrov’s televised press conference inside the meeting room. He wasn’t pleased.

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My Comment: They have been abandoned .... as a result I suspect that the Syrian rebels are now focusing on a Plan 'B' which I predict will be a closer alliance with the Gulf states, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc..