How Syria, Iraq and Russia tricked the Arab League and the Anti-Assad camp!

On Wednes­day, Decem­ber 14, Qatar, who chairs the Pres­i­dency of the Arab League (the pres­i­dency will end in March this year and goes to Iraq) decided to trans­fer the Syr­ian unrest to the UN-Security Coun­cil after Dam­as­cus refused to sign the initiative

The next day (Thurs­day), Iraq offi­cially announced a new ini­tia­tive to be dis­cussed with Dam­as­cus and invited the Syr­ian oppo­si­tion to Bagh­dad. But a sus­pi­cious wave of bomb­ings tar­geted Bagh­dad, forced the Iraqi Govt to can­cel the talks and the invitation.

The same day (Thurs­day) evening after the bomb­ing in Bagh­dad, Rus­sia announced a sur­prise move, a draft res­o­lu­tion to the Secu­rity Coun­cil on Syria, which frus­trated the Anti-Syria camp who seek to refer Syria to the Secu­rity Coun­cil accord­ing their terms.

At this stage, Moscow called the Syr­ian Vice Pres­i­dent Farouk al-Shara, and put pres­sure on Pres­i­dent Bashar al-Assad and forced them to coop­er­ate with the mon­i­tors. Dam­as­cus picked up the mes­sage, realised that the Arab League does not have the means, the logis­tic capa­bil­i­ties and the experts in field mon­i­tor­ing to imple­ment the ini­tia­tive on the ground which left the AL trapped in a closed loop.

Syria and its ally Rus­sia deceived the Anti-Syria camp when Syria signed (Mon­day, Decem­ber 19 ) the AL pro­to­col on send the observers in a coun­try shaken by a “peace­ful” pop­u­lar rev­o­lu­tion. The Anti-Syria camp and West­ern pow­ers wel­comed the Russ­ian move think­ing that this is a crack in the Russian-Chinese rela­tions towards Syria (and some com­ments also).