Qatar try to replicate its strategy in Libya against Syria

The British Financial Times newspaper said the statements of Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, that were recently broadcast by a US television channel, and his call for the deployment of Arab troops in Syria show that Hamad has given up attempts to use the Arab League against Syria and shifted his focus to other means including backing the so-called Free Syrian Army.

An article by Roula Khalaf said that such a move would be a repeat of Qatar's strategy in Libya where Doha provided the rebels with financial and diplomatic support as well as military advisors.

Khalaf however pointed out in her article titled 'Qatar has little to lose in opposing Assad' that "the stakes in Syria are much higher, and Qatar's all-out strategy is a lot riskier."

The British newspaper said that the Emir's comments are perhaps meant to spark a debate over military intervention in Syria, "a prospect that governments in the west, and within the Arab world itself, are loath to consider."

"Unlike Libya," the article continued, "there is no hope for a green light for intervention from the UN Security Council," given Russia's strong rejection of such a move.

It said that the Qataris are aware of the dangerous consequences of what an observer described the crisis in Syria as the "game of nations", "yet they appear to believe that the Syrian crisis has reached a point of no return and so gambling against the regime is worth the effort."

In a related context, French journalist Allain Jules, of a Cameroonian descent, denounced France's accusation of Damascus of a certain manipulation concerning the death of the French journalist Gilles Jacquier.

He described this accusation as "ridiculous as much as pathetic" in that it includes an insult and offense by Paris to the seven Syrians who were killed along with Jacquier. pointing out that it is ridiculous.

Jules wrote on his blog that Paris is spreading its allegations with the help of the fake columnists who betrayed the morals of journalism, saying "this is not surprising as it comes from a French government specialized in falsifying the truth."

He added that whitewashing terrorists through circulating false information is a reprehensible act, pointing out that the French constitution considers any rebellion or any provocation to take up arms in illegal ways as weakening and harmign the basic interests of the state.

He finds it strange how this is allowed to happen in Syria while in France the perpetrator shall be punished in prison, stressing what happened in Syria exceeded that to an aggression on the national security and the security of the armed forces. "All this is condemned and reprehensible in France, but Paris allows it in Syria."

Jules said France's deportation of Jacquier's body is considered in the criminal law an embezzlement of the body, asking "How do we ask the Syrian authorities to uncover the circumstances of the death of journalist Jacquier at the hands of terrorists who call themselves opponents after the withdrawal of the body?"

"This is simply an attempt to distort evidence, as if we are pushing the coroners to say what the French Foreign Ministry and the Elysee want them to say," he added. He denounced the double standards of the international community as it urges Syria to protect journalists while it doesn't react when terrorists kill the military in the country.