The Syrian National Council (pro-Western) continues to press for the Arab League to refer the case of Syria to the UN Security Council. However, the AL observers’ report is likely to fly in the face of the Atlanticist version of events and validate that of the Assad government. Hence the Syrian National Council’s announcement that it was preparing a counter report that the Arab League could use instead of the official document to seize the Security Council pushing for an international military intervention.
Le Figaro sparked the complete reversal of the French press. The latter no longer accuses the Assad administration of ensnaring French journalist Gilles Jacquier in order to assassinate him, but acknowledges that he fell victim to a "blunder of the insurgents." This interpretation is no more substantiated than the previous one and only reflects the about-face of the Sarkozy administration. Nervous about the revelations exposing Mr. Jacquier’s close ties with French military intelligence and the Government’s involvement in the kidnapping of the Iranian engineers, Paris decided to close the case and put a lid on these issues.
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