Speaking on a satellite television channel, the rebel commander Mr. Karayilan said he hoped the move would show Turkey that the group wanted peace.
"But none of the people in the fleet commander channels are here to punish a failed Kickstarter".
And one senior army commander told Channel 4 news that orders for the killings came from the top - Sri Lanka denied those allegations.
Those remarks showed how some delegates occupy a back channel between officers and commanders; some officers say that delegates have become too cozy with management.
It also dismissed the Supreme Military Council as its chief conduit of aid to the rebels and selected its own group of a dozen or so Free Syrian Army commanders to channel the matériel.
The message included a brief comment from al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri saying: "The brotherhood of Islam is stronger than any organisational links that change and go away". In the recording aired by al-Jazeera's Arabic news channel, Jawlani thanked the "commanders of al-Qaeda for having understood the need to break ties".
He is a sheik from the large Shummari tribe; hails from Hasaka, a marginalized area of northern Syria; and a cousin, according to the pan-Arab television channel Al Arabiya, is a rebel commander in control of an oil-rich area bordering Iraq.
In exchange for their support, American commanders agreed to channel $1 million in development projects directly to the tribal leaders and bypass the local Afghan government, which is widely seen as corrupt.
Through a communications channel that was tethered to commanders at a base in Niamey, Niger's capital, the team's position would have been sent by either a satellite radio or phone and typed into a chat room monitored by the chain of command stretching from Niger to Germany.
General McCaffrey offers a case study of the benefits that can flow from favored access: an inside track to sensitive information about strategy and tactics; insight into the priorities of ground commanders; a private channel to officials who oversaw war spending, as the Defense Solutions example shows.
Last Monday morning, a couple of hours after the Al Arabiya satellite news channel was bombed, Col. Roger Cloutier, commander of the Third Infantry Division's First Brigade in Baghdad, immediately got a telephoned update: two killed, eight wounded, so far, and an American explosive ordnance disposal unit was on the scene at the request of the Iraqis.
