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Hillary Clinton Secretary of State (view source)
Revision as of 17:56, May 26, 2017
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*'''21 June.''' ''New York Times'' reports "C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government...[weapons] are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar."<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/an-arms-pipeline-to-the-syrian-rebels.html?_r=0</ref>
*'''21 June.''' ''New York Times'' reports "C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government...[weapons] are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar."<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/an-arms-pipeline-to-the-syrian-rebels.html?_r=0</ref>
*'''27 July.''' <font color="brown">Adventure film maker [[Bernard-Henri Levy]] tells al-Arabiya TV, "What we did in Libya is more doable in Syria."</font><ref>https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=87e_1456332942</ref>
*'''30 July.''' <font color="brown">''The Guardian'' reports, <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/30/al-qaida-rebels-battle-syria</ref>
{{Quotebox|<small>these were not average members of the Free Syrian Army. Abu Khuder and his men fight for [[al-Qaida]]. They call themselves the ghuraba’a, or “strangers”, after a famous jihadi poem celebrating Osama bin Laden’s time with his followers in the Afghan mountains, and they are one of a number of jihadi organisations establishing a foothold in the east of the country now that the conflict in Syria has stretched well into its second bloody year.<br>
They try to hide their presence. “Some people are worried about carrying the [black] flags” ...<br>
...[they] are working closely with the military council that commands the Free Syrian Army brigades in the region. “We meet almost every day,” he said. “We have clear instructions from our [al-Qaida] leadership that if the FSA need our help we should give it. We help them with IEDs and car bombs. Our main talent is in the bombing operations” ...<br>
“The FSA lacks the ability to plan and lacks military experience. That is what [al-Qaida] can bring. ...<br>
“In the beginning there were very few. Now, mashallah, there are immigrants joining us and bringing their experience,” he told the gathered people. “Men from [[Yemen]], Saudi, Iraq and Jordan...<br>
“[Al-Qaida’s] goal is establishing an Islamic state and not a Syrian state,” he replied. “Those who fear the organisation fear the implementation of Allah’s jurisdiction...</small>}}</font>
*'''31 July.''' <font color="brown">NBC News reports anti-Assad forces obtained shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles.</font><ref>http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/48427738</ref>
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