Obama administration works to launch new Syrian opposition council
Josh Rogin, ForeignPolicy.com, Oct 30 2012
Syrian opposition leaders of all stripes will convene in Qatar next week to form a new leadership body to subsume the opposition Syrian National Council, which is widely viewed as ineffective, consumed by infighting, and little respected on the ground, The Cable has learned. The State Dept has been heavily involved in crafting the new council as part of its effort oust Assad and build a more viable and unified opposition.. US officials and opposition leaders are calling the initiative the Riad Seif plan.  Of the other three, one traveled from Sweden, one from Jordan, and one from Kuwait. They all spoke briefly and then left the room while the foreign ministers discussed the road ahead. A senior administration official told The Cable:

We wanted more but we couldn’t get them out. The other people were chosen by people from the inside. The New York meeting was designed to tee up the idea that there has to be a new political structure, not just the SNC. The exact structure of the council will be determined in Qatar, not before. We call it a proto-parliament. One could also think of it as a continental congress. We have to get them to bless the new political leadership structure they’re setting up and not only do we have to get them to bless the structure, but they have to get the names on it. We need to be clear: This is what the US supports, and if you want to work with us you are going to work with this plan and you’re going to do this now. We aren’t going to waste any more time. The situation is worsening. We need to do this now.

 The US government will be represented at the Nov 7 Qatar meeting by Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, who has been dealing with various opposition groups and weighing in on the composition of the new council, a senior administration official said. For example, Ford pressed for the council to have 50 members in order to include 20 representatives of the internal opposition alongside 15 members of the SNC and 15 other representatives of various Syrian opposition organizations. The idea is also to create an eight- to 10-member executive body made up of technocrats who are not on the new council that would be able to work directly with foreign governments on a day-to-day basis on practical items such as the delivery and direction of humanitarian assistance. The official said:

We could finally have an interface to say, ‘The needs of this place are greater than the needs of people in that place, so please direct assistance here or there.’

 But the Obama administration’s efforts go beyond the attempt to stand up the new council. Although members of Ford’s staff have been in communication with representatives of the opposition Free Syrian Army for some time, in July, Ford made his first in-person contact with the FSA during a visit to Cairo. A special conference call was arranged earlier this month between Ford and several FSA commanders, the official confirmed. 
[ed notes:so zionazi robert ford was meeting with fsa leaders last month?no surpise there...as far as this meeting in doha is concerned...the opposition has  been in doha  waiting for this meeting in luxury hotels,with no smiles supposedly lol..see... LOOK WHOS IN DOHA...ZIONIST AMMAR  also see
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