Newly-elected head of the Syrian National Council said rebels need hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons.
The newly-elected head of the Syrian National Council (SNC) said on Saturday that the international community should support the opposition without any strings attached and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.
George Sabra, the secular Christian opposition figure who was elected on Friday night, said he was disappointed with the group's foreign backers.
"Unfortunately, we get nothing from them, except some statements, some encouragement," he said.
Speaking on the sidelines of a weeklong SNC conference in Doha, Qatar, Sabra told the Associated Press news agency that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's allies "give the regime everything".
Speaking on the sidelines of a weeklong SNC conference in Doha, Qatar, Sabra told the Associated Press news agency that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's allies "give the regime everything".
Sabra, 65, was heading an SNC delegation on Saturday in talks with rival opposition groups on forging a new, broader opposition leadership group — an idea promoted by Western and Arab backers of those trying to oust Assad.
Sabra was one of two candidates that the SNC's executive council chose in a ballot monitored in front of reporters and council members. In his first statement as SNC chief, Sabra on Friday vowed to "work with other components of the Syrian opposition to accelerate the fall of Assad's criminal regime"...
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