[An Nahar] Damascus...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat...
on Monday slammed the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
over its decision to hand Syria's seat at the organization to opposition forces, saying it had rewarded "bandidos" and "thugs".
"The League has handed Syria's stolen seat to bandidos and thugs, to the (opposition) Coalition which thinks it can sit in the name of the Syrian people," the official al-Thawra newspaper said.
"They have forgotten that it is the people who grant the powers and not the emirs of obscurantism and sand," the paper added, in an apparent reference to key opposition supporters Qatar and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
The Arab League summit opening Tuesday in Doha "will take place under Qatari supervision with the main goal to finish off Syria. They forget... that the Arabs, without Syria, would not be real Arabs," the paper said.
Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
station al-Ikhbariya added in the same vein that "the drums of treason echo in Doha."
"Qatar wants to bypass the rules of the vaporous Arab League by giving the seat of a founding member of the League to a coalition that obeys only the money and fuel of the Gulf and submits to American dictates," the station said.
The official Tishreen newspaper described Qatar as "an Israeli dagger planted in the heart of the Arab world."
A high-ranking member of the Arab League, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, confirmed Monday that Syria's seat would be handed to the opposition, a decision hailed by the rebel Syrian National Coalition
The Arab League on March 6 called on the coalition "to form an executive body to take up Syria's seat" and attend the summit, although Iraq and Algeria have expressed reservations, while Leb has distanced itself from the decision.