Middle East  Syria crisis: What chance for new opposition
coalition?  Moaz al-Khatib speaks in Doha, Qatar, 11 November
2012 Image caption Coalition leader Moaz al-Khatib, a former
imam of Damascus's Umayyad Mosque, fled Syria this year  It was
a difficult birth, after a long gestation leading to more than a
week of intensive labour, with a large host of doctors and
midwives in anxious attendance.  But after a lot of last-minute
pushing and pulling, and some cries of distress, the new,
unified Syrian opposition leadership that the West has long been
seeking finally emerged from the talks in Qatar.  How it fares
may in large measure depend on the extent to which its outside
backers, the US-led "Friends of Syria" group, live up to their
pledges of support.  And that may, in turn, depend on the extent
to which the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and
Opposition Forces establishes its credibility and leadership on
the ground, especially in terms of controlling and unifying the
rebel military.  So there