I think he's just run out of his usefulness and he is expendable. The only control he has left is yapping about his funeral. His number is up. He's in so much crap with syria that they have to get rid of him.
This whole no name funeral stinks so much. Now he want's Hussein to eulogize? Sounds like they're setting up a meeting for all the cabal types so they can pass information face to face. They already know every other form of communication is comped.
That would be perfect.