Obama Mulls ‘Non-Lethal’ Aid to Syria, As Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood Insists It Doesn’t Want to ‘Control the Country Alone’

By Patrick Goodenough
March 26, 2012

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with expatriate Syrian opposition members in Geneva in December 2011. (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – As President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday discussed providing “non-lethal” supplies to the Syrian opposition, Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood launched a new public relations drive designed to assuage concerns about its agenda for a post-Assad Syria.
At a press conference in Istanbul, Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leaders said their organization was committed to a democratic Syria built on “dialogue and participation,” in which all people would be equal, whatever their faith or ethnicity. They also pledged to fight terrorism and to respect international treaties.
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Riad al-Shaqfa denied that the Islamist group wants to rule a Syria on its own, describing that as a line spun by the regime in Damascus.