DOHA
Syrian National Council (SNC), Syria's main opposition group, elected Friday, a Christian dissident as its new president.
Support of Al-Ikhwan, or Syria's Muslim Brotherhood, played a key role in the election of George Sabra, a former geography teacher, who was arrested for his dissident views, and he left Syria in September 2011 after his release.
"Our support for Sabra shows that Al Ikhwan does not have any ambitions for power. For us, it is not important from which background the president comes. The important thing is the stability of the transition process," Ali Sadr al-Din al-Bayanuni told Then Anadolu Agency in Doha.
Sabra was a formal secretary general of the Syrian National Council.
