Syria: Assad mocked Arab League monitors with link to YouTube video In an email dated December 29, 2011, Assad shared a link to a YouTube video portraying an Arab League monitor as the Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank Engine and a toy car with a tea straw "turret" as a makeshift tank. In the video, the Fat Controller, aka the Arab League monitor, is unable to see the tank due to a magical incantation making it appear as a toy car. Four biscuits are used to demonstrate a fragile four-storey buildings at the brink of collapse. "Before we starts the explanation we would like to thank Professor Burhan Ghalion, who drew our attention to the "Satan" plan that the Syrian regime is using to hide tanks in Homs," the video narrator says. Burham Ghalion, the leader of the opposition Syrian National Council, is believed to have suggested tanks were being concealed in government facilities. The video continues, explaining how the tank driver removes the tea straw turret upon seeing a monitor, and the tank turns into a toy car to conceal itself. They have developed a special incantation that turns the tank by some Godly miracle into a toy car for children and a Mate tea drinking straw. Now, as the Arab monitor comes to check whether the Syrian regime has complied with the Arab initiatives or not ... very lovely person, sorry, he does not know what is going on.