Obama’s Pull back from Strike Shocks Syria’s Opposition: We’re Losers, Putin Big Liar

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Disappointment, is the term that reflects the Syrian opposition's reaction to the US President Barak Obama's pull back from the brink of attacking Syria.

Russia proposed that Syria puts its chemical weapons under international control. Damascus agreed.
Hours later, Obama described Mocow's offer as "potentially positive". "I think you have to take it with a grain of salt initially," he told "NBC Nightly News" in an interview Monday.

Meanwhile, the Syrian opposition suffered the shock.

The main opposition group denounced as a "political maneuver" the Russian plan.
"The proposal of [Russian Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov is a political maneuver and is part of useless procrastination that will only result in more deaths and destruction for the Syrian people," said an opposition statement published late Monday

The so-called Free Syrian Army commander accused both President Bashar al-Assad's regime and Moscow of deceit.
"We call for strikes and we warn the international community that this regime tells lies, and the liar [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is its teacher. Putin is the biggest liar," Selim Idriss stated.
In an interview with al-Jazeera channel, Idriss added: "The regime wants to buy time to save itself."

He also warned "decision makers" against falling into al-Assad's "trap of deceit and dishonesty."
Qassim Saadeddine, a commander of armed groups in northern Syria and a spokesman for the so-called Supreme Military Council, said: "It is a trap and deceitful maneuver by the Damascus regime and will do nothing to help the situation.
"They have tons of weapons hidden that would be nearly impossible for international inspectors to find."

Similarly, Amr al-Azm, a Syrian opposition figure stated "the opposition are the absolute losers in all of this."
"The regime gets out of an impending strike, and the Russians will be able to say they were supporting diplomacy all along. The US will try to present this as a personal triumph, they will try and show this was Obama's initiative all along in talks behind the scenes," he said.

The Syrian regime, he added, would use this time to consolidate control on the ground. "This smacks of Saddam in 1991. [The Russians] will spin this out for as long as possible. It's classic Russian politics, reel it out and buy time."
"The feasibility of removing the regime's entire chemical weapons stockpile in just one week was also laughable," he said. "You can't destroy chemical weapons stocks in one week, that's just absurd."

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