Heads: The Arab league observers' mission is a pure farce. Led by an extraordinary dubious Sudanese the whole scenario is more a waste of money than a useful help to the besieged Syrian people. All they will see and report about is what they want to see.
Tails: It looks like the Arab League observers are dumped off in a foggy territory without any necessary equipment to clear up the area. Their intentions to investigate being hampered through subtle threat hints and a bunch of security officers guarding them day and night. All they will see and report about is what they become to see.
Not easy. The confident element in me tends to the last mentioned explanation. We know what those regime mafiosi are able to do only if they could maintain their power. Intimidations are in Assad's world 'business as usual', respect doesn't exist, not for religious festives, not for the lives of innocent kids, so why in this case for some foreigners sticking their noses in?
The videos uploaded today are speaking a different language. The observers shown seem to be clearly disinterested in that what they boastfully called 'fact finding'. In the first footage residents try to explain the observer their points of view, very emotional, but who can resent it them in view of the traumatizing months they're gone through? Study instead the posture and gesture of the observer. This is the true open book:
In the following video an attendant at least is making a photo (we do not find out which special motive he has caught) while the observer's posture is certainly not revealing any kind of compassion, interest or awareness. A PR advisor would call it 'desastrous performance:
Example number three is topping the first both. An exalted observer walks with his guards through the streets more or less ignoring each and everyone who tries to get in contact with him. Some residents like to give him a hearty warm welcome but after a short professional smile he still behaves like an eccentric celebrity on his way to the awards ceremony. In my eyes the cone end of arrogance:
For sure, we're not expecting miracles but real engagement looks different. Reducing it all to a positive aspect: yes, the observers really reached Homs today - and not a Potemkin village. But this first impression of the monitors' behavior doesn't evoke an efficient mission which will lead to the end of regime violence.
Silence kills we've learned. Disinterest kills double, the people being murdered around and the the hopes of the others on an end of the everlasting nightmare.
More than fourty martyrs are counted today. The monitors' purpose is it to end the continuing violence against civilians. Sad enough to see the thrown coin landed on the brink. I really hope the other expected observers are taking their task more serious than this guys here ..
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