British Empire Trying To Break Resistance To World War

After resistance from U.S. generals and from Russia and China had postponed Britain's planned Syria war, the empire is nevertheless still trying to find a scheme to get it started anyway.

Over the weekend, the Arab League thwarted British desires by extending its monitoring mission for a month, and continuing to oppose foreign military intervention. In response, the British-Saudi Gulf Cooperation Council pulled out of the monitoring team and demanded that the Syrian issue be brought to the UN Security Council. Now Arab League Secretary General el-Arabi and Qatar's Foreign Minister (and Prime Minister) Sheikh Hamad al-Thani are travelling to New York this Saturday, to present the Security Council with what www.naharnet.com says will be a British-French-German-Arab League resolution, which will emphasize the parts of the weekend Arab League resolution which were rejected by Syria as abrogations of its national sovereignty: the demand that al-Assad appoint his Vice President to negotiate with the opposition for inauguration of a unity government within two months, which would prepare elections.

AFP interviewed Haitham Mannaa, a leader of the Syria-based opposition group SNCC, which is Communist Party-linked, unlike the foreign-based SNC opposition group run by the Muslim Brotherhood for the British. Mannaa, whose organization has a different channel of relationship to the imperial overlords, advised the el-Araby/al Thani mission to go to Moscow before proceeding to New York, saying that Russia could support the Arab League proposal if it feels it's a party directly involved, but if the Russians feel sidelined, they will stand against it.