The 2013' SOREF Symposium will feature many Senior US, Israeli civilian & defense officials, along with representatives of the FSA, namely (in the statetment) 'Colonel Abdul Hamid Zakaria, the commander & spokesman for the Free Syrian Army, and Colonel Abdul-Jabbar Aqidi commander and head of the Military Revolutionary Council in Aleppo . They will attend a special session on "The situation in Syria and the war against the regime of (President Bashar) Assad,". This session will be off-the record & not for publication.

Speaking at the symposium will be U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel & ... Israeli Minister Tzipi Livni