'Fallen apart'

In an interview with al-Jazeera broadcast on Tuesday evening, Mr Malek said that by allowing in Arab League observers the Syrian government had "gained a lot of time to help it implement its plan" to end the unrest."What I saw was a humanitarian disaster. The regime is not just committing one war crime, but a series of crimes against its people.""The snipers are everywhere shooting at civilians. People are being kidnapped. Prisoners are being tortured and none were released.""Some on our team preferred to maintain good relations with the regime and denied that there were snipers," he added. Mr Malek said he had resigned because what he had seen, and asserted that the observer mission had fallen apart."The mission was a farce and the observers have been fooled," he added. "The regime orchestrated it and fabricated most of what we saw to stop the Arab League from taking action against the regime."He said that security forces had not withdrawn their tanks from the streets - as mandated by the Arab League peace initiative - but had just hidden them and then brought them back out after the observers had left.Mr Malek also said imprisoned protesters who were shown by state television being freed last month as part of an amnesty were actually people who had been detained at random four or five days earlier.Mr Malek's name was on a list of the observers who were sent to Syria in late December, according to the Associated Press. UGG Boots He was identified as a Tunisian who works for the Paris-based Arab Committee for Human Rights (ACHR), although al-Jazeera said he was an Algerian. On Tuesday, two Kuwait members of the observer mission were injured when their convoy was attacked by unknown demonstrators."Failing to provide adequate protection in Lattakia and other areas where the mission is deployed is considered a serious violation by the government of its commitments," the Arab League said in a statement.Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Muallem, stressed that his country "would continue to bear its responsibility to secure and protect those monitors".Mr Malek also criticised the head of the mission, Sudanese Gen Mohammed al-Dabi, who he said had "wanted to steer a middle course in order not to anger the [Syrian] authorities or any other side".