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Line 99: − − *<font color="brown">''Reuters'' reports ‘a large shipment of weapons and explosives and night-vision goggles … in a truck coming from Iraq’ carrying 'dozens of grenades and pistols as well as rifles and ammunition belts’ is seized at al-Waleed (known in Syria as al-Tanf) southern bordering crossing, some 400 west of Baghdad. The Syrian Government News Agency (SANA) said the weapons were intended ‘for use in actions that affect Syria’s internal security and spread unrest and chaos.’ The driver said the weapons had been loaded in Baghdad and he was to be paid $5,000 to deliver them to Syria.</font><ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-iraq-idUSTRE72A3MI20110311 Syria says seizes weapons smuggled from Iraq], Mar 11, 2011</ref> Line 114:
Line 112: − *'''18 March.''' <font color="brown">Armed protesters in Daraa, Syria open fire on regime security forces.<ref>[http://www.handsoffsyriasydney.com/tag/tim-anderson-hands-off-syria%3Fprint%3Dpdf-page&ved=0ahUKEwiYxtTe5ILUAhXqxFQKHa_9CuEQFgiQATAV&usg=AFQjCNH9o86l1MN0vnd-zHPh1oDfAyqFpA&sig2=oDLtUoswAqdmZaGZGoLyDw]</ref> Security forces return fire.<ref>http://www.trans-int.com/wordpress/index.php/2014/04/14/father-frans-on-the-syrian-rebellion-the-protestors-shot-first/</ref> What began as a popular movement for greater freedom and democracy is over by April 2011. The continuing war is fueled and funded by outside sources, and foreign fighters entering Syria from Turkey and Northern Iraq. The fighters are principly equiped and funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, although the CIA by June 2011 is supplying jihadist elements with weapons from captured Libyan stockpiles. Airial transport originates in Benghazi and flown to Incirlik, Turkey. Sea transport originates in Derna, Libya to the Turkish port of Iskenderun, 35 miles from the Syrian border.</font><ref>http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5897</ref>+
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*'''11 March.''' Canadian ''Globe and Mail'' interviews the rebel appointed security chief in Derna: “We need Stingers. We don’t need your stupid words.”<ref>The article says "foreign intelligence agencies have bitter experience with supplying Stinger missiles to anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan, only to spend years struggling to keep them out of the hands of terrorists."https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/libyan-rebels-at-pains-to-distance-themselves-from-extremists/article570971/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&</ref><ref>[[TWA Flight 800]] may have been brought down by a Stinger missile supplied to the Afghan ''mujihadeen'' by the CIA in the 1980s and smuggled back into the United States. https://www.amazon.com/TWA-800-Crash-Cover-Up-Conspiracy/dp/1621574717</ref>
*'''11 March.''' Canadian ''Globe and Mail'' interviews the rebel appointed security chief in Derna: “We need Stingers. We don’t need your stupid words.”<ref>The article says "foreign intelligence agencies have bitter experience with supplying Stinger missiles to anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan, only to spend years struggling to keep them out of the hands of terrorists."https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/libyan-rebels-at-pains-to-distance-themselves-from-extremists/article570971/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&</ref><ref>[[TWA Flight 800]] may have been brought down by a Stinger missile supplied to the Afghan ''mujihadeen'' by the CIA in the 1980s and smuggled back into the United States. https://www.amazon.com/TWA-800-Crash-Cover-Up-Conspiracy/dp/1621574717</ref>
*'''13 March.''' Secretary Clinton travels to [[Paris]] for a series of meetings with foreign ministers from the Group of Eight countries. [[Bernard-Henri Levy]] is also in attendence to do introductions to the rebel group leaders.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/did-bernard-henri-lvy-take-nato-to-war</ref> She meets with Libyan Transitional National Council leader Mahmoud Jibril and consults with other foreign counterparts on further UN Security Council action.<ref>https://anarchitext.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/bhl-war-in-libya/</ref> She secretly adds that aggressive action and not just a no-fly zone will be adequate.
*'''13 March.''' Secretary Clinton travels to [[Paris]] for a series of meetings with foreign ministers from the Group of Eight countries. [[Bernard-Henri Levy]] is also in attendence to do introductions to the rebel group leaders.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/did-bernard-henri-lvy-take-nato-to-war</ref> She meets with Libyan Transitional National Council leader Mahmoud Jibril and consults with other foreign counterparts on further UN Security Council action.<ref>https://anarchitext.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/bhl-war-in-libya/</ref> She secretly adds that aggressive action and not just a no-fly zone will be adequate.
*The resolution passes 10-0, with Russia, China, [[Germany]], Brazil and India abstaining. It authorizes a “pure no-fly zone."
*The resolution passes 10-0, with Russia, China, [[Germany]], Brazil and India abstaining. It authorizes a “pure no-fly zone."
*'''19 March.''' Sarkozy convenes meeting in the Westin Hotel to solicit agreement for the immediate deployment of military aircraft to stop Gaddafi's efforts to put down the rebellion in Benghazi, and the establishment of a US no-fly zone in the country.
*'''19 March.''' Sarkozy convenes meeting in the Westin Hotel to solicit agreement for the immediate deployment of military aircraft to stop Gaddafi's efforts to put down the rebellion in Benghazi, and the establishment of a US no-fly zone in the country.