"In Minneapolis, FNVW and its spin-off CISPOS hosted several events with Syrian expats who were on record as supporting the U.S. bombing of their country. (This isnt only happening in the U.S. In April 2011, a Vancouver peace group documented its objection to the fact that other Canadian peace groups were sponsoring speakers who justified and advocated in favour of the NATO bombing of Libya.)
Often Syrian experts speaking to peace groups, such as FNVW/CISPOSs upcoming speaker, Mohja Kahf, have ties to the early destabilization of Syria. This American Prospect article documents how Najib Ghadbian, Kahfs husband of over 20 years (apparently up to last year when they divorced) was one of the Syrian dissidents who attended the early 2006 meeting with Liz Cheney (then-Vice President Dick Cheneys daughter), along with other Syrian dissidents to plan how to destabilize Syria and topple its government. Like some Syrian version of Ahmed Chalabi, the neocons choice to run post-invasion Iraq, Kahfs husband apparently got himself invited to Liz Cheneys Iran-Syria Operations Group by having signed the Damascus Declaration in 2005, the year before."