President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
"The Syrian Council is open to all Syrians. It is an independent group personifying the illusory sovereignty of the Syrian people in their struggle for liberty," Gay Paree-based Burhan Ghalioun told news hounds.
"The council rejects any outside interference that undermines the illusory sovereignty of the Syrian people," he added.
Ghalioun, a La Belle France-based academic, had recently been designated leader of opposition group the National Transitional Council, which has Islamist and nationalist supporters.
The new opposition grouping announced on Sunday unites Syrian opposition movements across the political spectrum, and includes the Local Coordination Committees which groups activists on the ground, liberals, and the long-banned Moslem Brüderbund as well as Kurds and Assyrians.
Representatives of Syria's six-month-old protest movement and opposition had been meeting since Friday to forge a united front against Assad's regime which the U.N. says has killed at least 2,700 people since protests erupted in mid-March.