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*'''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>
*'''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>
===Flynn report August 2012===
===August 2012===
*'''1 August.''' <font color="brown">''Reuters'' reports Obama issued a secret Presidential Finding earlier in the year authorising transfer of captured weapons from Libya to Syria.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170216061621/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/obama-secret-syria-order_n_1730712.html?tw_p=twt</ref>
*'''1 August.''' <font color="brown">''Reuters'' reports Obama issued a secret Presidential Finding earlier in the year authorising transfer of captured weapons from Libya to Syria.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170216061621/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/obama-secret-syria-order_n_1730712.html?tw_p=twt</ref>
{{Quotebox|<small>under provisions of the presidential finding, the United States was collaborating with a secret command center operated by Turkey and its allies.<br>
{{Quotebox|<small>under provisions of the presidential finding, the United States was collaborating with a secret command center operated by Turkey and its allies.<br>
*<font color="brown">Amb. [[Christopher Stevens]] put in charge of the covert operation. The aim is to arm jihadist groups which transformed themselves into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to overthrow [[Bashar al Assad]].</font>
*<font color="brown">Amb. [[Christopher Stevens]] put in charge of the covert operation. The aim is to arm jihadist groups which transformed themselves into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to overthrow [[Bashar al Assad]].</font>
===Flynn report===
*'''12 August.''' <font color="brown">[[Defense Intelligence Agency]] document circulated widely among government agencies, including [[CENTCOM]], the CIA, FBI, [[DHS]], NGA (National Geospacial Agency), State Dept., and many others. The document states the West (NATO powers), members of the Gulf Cooperation Council ([[Bahrain]], [[Kuwait]], [[Oman]], Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the [[United Arab Emirates]]), and [[Turkey]] want an [[Islamic State]] ("Salafist principality in Eastern Syria") to oppose the regime of [[Bashar al-Assad]].
*'''12 August.''' <font color="brown">[[Defense Intelligence Agency]] document circulated widely among government agencies, including [[CENTCOM]], the CIA, FBI, [[DHS]], NGA (National Geospacial Agency), State Dept., and many others. The document states the West (NATO powers), members of the Gulf Cooperation Council ([[Bahrain]], [[Kuwait]], [[Oman]], Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the [[United Arab Emirates]]), and [[Turkey]] want an [[Islamic State]] ("Salafist principality in Eastern Syria") to oppose the regime of [[Bashar al-Assad]].
{{Quotebox|AQI [al Qaeda in Iraq] SUPPORTED THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION FROM THE BEGINNING, BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND THROUGH THE MEDIA…
{{Quotebox|AQI [al Qaeda in Iraq] SUPPORTED THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION FROM THE BEGINNING, BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND THROUGH THE MEDIA…