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Originally posted by MrSpad
This guy is not going to know anything. He was pretty much out of the picture and at times under house arrest because he refused to order his troops to shoot the unarmed protesters at the start of all this. To bad he did not use his power at the time to just take out Assad instead when he gave those orders and this entire civil war could have been avoided. It is telling that the Syrian Army had over 30,000 officers at the start and now have only about 8,000 who have remained loyal with rest joining the rebels.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Catacomb
Are you sure you didn't read this in a separate article? I've read all of your links over again and I'm not finding that information anywhere.
Labwani, the veteran dissident, said he believed that both Washington, which backs the opposition, and Moscow, which backs Assad, could act jointly to promote Habib for a post-war role.
"It seems that the Americans - and to a degree the Russians - are preparing him for a post-Assad role," he said, describing one possibility as Habib taking control of government forces and then negotiating with the rebels on a transitional government.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by BobAthome
I don't see anyone going for war crimes without US boots on the ground.
Originally posted by Catacomb
Originally posted by MrSpad
This guy is not going to know anything. He was pretty much out of the picture and at times under house arrest because he refused to order his troops to shoot the unarmed protesters at the start of all this. To bad he did not use his power at the time to just take out Assad instead when he gave those orders and this entire civil war could have been avoided. It is telling that the Syrian Army had over 30,000 officers at the start and now have only about 8,000 who have remained loyal with rest joining the rebels.
The same article that I linked to in the original posting has been edited, and expanded. It is now reporting that he is being groomed by the US, in the case of regime change, to become an interim (if not an actual, permaneant) leader of the new government.