"... The Arabs are divided about whether to supply equipment to the Syrian opposition. Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said in Cairo on Thursday that the organization has “no link to arming” and that he was personally opposed to “using violence” in Syria.
In addition to sanctions and humanitarian aid, the United States and other countries have been seeking to increase Assad’s sense of isolation by citing a coalescing of opposition groups and calling on his supporters and minority groups inside Syria to split with the regime before it falls.
But efforts on both those fronts continue to lag. “Some of that is going on,” the Arab diplomat said of reports (by the SNC & the FSA) that Assad supporters have begun to send their money and families out of the country in preparation for deserting him. But the Obama administration and others are also “trying to exaggerate it and spook [Assad] into thinking people are turning on him.”..."
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