Just in time for Friends of Syria Conference, Assad unleashes Scud missiles on his own people

Now that's a convenient coincidence of timing, wouldn't you think?

Just as the 114 representatives of the Friends of Syria sit down in Morocco to discuss how to divvy up the spoils post Assad, along comes the NYT with a blockbuster expose about the depraved madman Assad firing Scud missiles against his own peaceful protesters.

Any evidence? Nope, just the say-so of a couple of unnamed US security officials. The story is at this moment a staple of Syria coverage throughout the Western world.

Oddly enough, there has been no confirmation from the ever-alert "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights," nor has there been any cell-phone video coverage that the Syrian opposition typically has uploaded within minutes of recording any images that might help their cause.

And while far away US security officials seem to have the goods on the story, its only mention in Lebanese news sites sources those same Americans, and Turkish news site Hurriyet at this writing hasn't mentioned the story at all.

I could be wrong, but it sounds like made-up news to me. Meanwhile, the 114 delegates to the Friends of Syria's Treasury seem to be bogged down in squabbling about who is and is not an acceptable "rebel" with yesterday's announcement that the US had branded Jabhat al-Nusra a terror group not going over well with the SNC. The Free Army folks on the ground know who is doing the heavy lifting, and understand full well that a ban on al-Nusra effectively means victory for Assad.

So in spite of all the congratulatory press coverage of the Morocco conference, all that has been agreed is that the West will continue to fan the flames of Syria's immolation for the time being.