BEIRUT: U.S. effort to undercut Islamist rebels in Syria appears to ...
A U.S.-supported push to form military councils across Syria to unite the hundreds of groups fighting to topple President Bashar Assad and coordinate the provision of aid to secular rebel groups appears largely to have failed.Rebels said U.S. officials pressed for the creation of the councils in each of Syria’s 14 provinces in response to rebel demands for arms and other support. In December, representatives of various rebel groups met in Turkey and elected a 30-member Supreme Military Council, which then selected defected Syrian Gen. Salim Idriss as its head.But Syrian activists say the councils have become the subject of derision and mockery inside Syria in the weeks since and that other groups, including the al Qaida-linked Nusra Front, have assumed the central coordinating position that U.S. officials had hoped the military councils would have..“They had this plan, but no one received any support,” said [[[[[[[Mahmoud, a Syrian-American who has set up a small rebel training camp in northern Syria]]]]]]]] and says he receives support from individual donors. He asked that his full identity not be revealed because of security concerns.

[ed notes:So a Syrian-American has created a rebel training camp in northern Syria?thanks for the tip...i suspect you want me to believe that the u.s. isn't funding him either right?lol