Arab League secretary general Nabil al-Arabi (R) meets with veteran Sudanese military intelligence officer General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, head of the Arab League observer mission in Syria, in Cairo on December 24, 2011. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images
Not a Parody: Head Of Arab League Monitors In Syria Led Darfur Genocide -- Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
The notion that the Arab League was going to stand up for human rights in Syria was always somewhat farcical. This is, after all, a group that has numbered among its members some of the worst tyrants in the world and which has supported terrorist groups so long as their targets were Jews and not Arab oligarchs. Nevertheless the world applauded when the League turned on Bashar Assad’s murderous Syrian regime and viewed its offer of placing monitors to ensure that the violence there ended. But in case anyone in the West is actually paying attention to the slaughter in Syria, the identity of the head of that peace mission ought to pour cold water on the idea that it will do much to help alleviate human rights abuses.
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My Comment: A cold dose of reality from Jonathan Tobin on who are these "Arab League monitors". For more info on who Sudanese General Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi is, go here.
On a side note .... my gut is telling me that he is probably the 'Arab League monitor' who stated yesterday that the situation in Syria is .... cough cough ..... reassuring.
Update: It was Sudanese General Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi who reported that the carnage in Homs was 'reassuring'. Sighhh .... he should be in a war crimes court, not leading this delegation.