US Considers Directly Arming Syrian Rebels
Post-Election, Obama More Willing to Intervene
In July, Syrian rebel lobbyists reported that the Obama Administration had told them they would not be able to intervene in a serious way until after the November election. The vote’s over and now the meddling can begin in earnest.
That’s the message from US officials tonight, who say the president is now considering several options for deeper intervention into the ever worsening civil war, including the possibility of directly arming certain rebel factions.
Up until now the US has just been playing the role of facilitator, with the CIA smuggling other nations’ arms into Syria for them through various intermediaries. Officials say no decision has been made yet on whether or not to move directly into arms supplying.
If the decision is made, it will make the question of which factions to arm all the more difficult, as the US at present maintains at least a level of deniability in its current smuggling. With various groups vying to be the Western-friendly “umbrella,” and myriad secular and Islamist factions on the ground, it will be an uphill battle for the US to convince the world it isn’t arming terrorists.
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klee
November 28th, 2012 at 9:31 pm
wake up. they've been directly arming them from the very beginning. not to mention US NATO troops on the ground for 18 months
mojo
November 28th, 2012 at 10:02 pm
The U.S have made its pledge to Saudi Arabia and UAE, that it will do everything and legally or not to divide the bound between Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia and china.., if it was not clear to some as we mentioned it before election , let me repeate myself.., president obama have saud said to president of Russia, " I have more flexibility after election" . Now the only thing for him is to continue with the pledged made to the true tyrants in middle east, the Saudis and UAE.
Let me put to like this, democracy needs to have a platform, a mechanism to function, such system needs to have a social economic and political justice to perform the functionality in such democracy, when you don't have that mechanism the democracy becomes a falsified instrument which can be used and abused by anyone. You want peace and justice then vote for Justice Party, look up the websit and read it for yourself.
rick
November 29th, 2012 at 12:10 am
Yep, I always knew that America supported terrorism when they deemed it necessary. Obama and Congress are the real terrorist and they should all be hung in public for their crimes. Afterwards, Michelle Obama and the little ones should be deported back to Kenya and apologize to the Kenyan people for making them look bad.
MoT
November 29th, 2012 at 1:21 am
So what about all those lies about "non-lethal" aid, eh? To hear Washington's lying shills defend murdering terrorists in Syria is to be reminded that the ole ambassador in Libya probably got offed by the very same sort of folks the US aided in overthrowing Qadaffi. The bitter irony doesn't escape me one bit.
08oo
November 29th, 2012 at 1:53 am
It is his task to create such fraud headlines. He will not stop this. He and the whole staff ignore any proof of this.
And there is plenty of highly reliable proof: http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons-…
Fillmorehagan
November 29th, 2012 at 2:20 am
More US arms to so-called "rebels" probably means more Russian and Iranian arms for Assad and a still bloodier conflict.
If anybody still thinks the US is fighting "terrorism" rather than supporting it in many instances, I have a bridge to sell you.
klyde
November 29th, 2012 at 3:13 am
And when the Islamist take charge everyone from Whitehall to the White House will be shocked.
Rich
November 29th, 2012 at 5:05 am
Yeah, like this isn't going to blow up in the U.S. governments face. And, the government doesn't have to convince anyone they are not arming terrorists; they don't deal with terrorists, therefore the people they are arming can't be terrorists! See how simple that was!
donbacon
November 29th, 2012 at 7:45 am
You beat me to it. Fund-raising for weak tea like this and Glaser's?
Chris Stevens got hit in Benghazi when he was arranging Libyan arms to go to Turkey. His last official act was a meeting with the Turkish ambassador. In Benghazi!! Stevens real day job was in Tripoli.
WashingtonDC Goddamn
November 29th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Michelle Obama does not give the orders.
WashingtonDC Goddamn
November 29th, 2012 at 10:06 am
President Obama is working himself up into a War Froth. Kill, Bomb, Assassinate, No-Fly Zones, Enrichment of the War Machine. Nothing is off the table. Paid for from the bottomless pockets of the more and more impoverished American Tax Payer.
Jan Burton
November 29th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
I'll have no sympathy for the US when one of its airliners is blown from the sky with an SAM by these jihadi freaks.
If Uncle Sam refuses to learn from 1980s Afghanistan then they deserve all that's coming.
ATM
November 29th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Just taking a guess. Seems like we must have switched horses in mid stream in Benghazi, Must have been some huge caches of weapons available. Islamic groups in lybia would not have taken kindly to them being shipped to the wronge crowd after they did the work of securing them. Well surprise surprise you do not break contracts so easily in North Africa even if it was just a handshake with a few witnesses.
Ben_C
November 29th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Ditz…
How do you think the Obama Administration plans to install this 'new' sham Syrian "government" they recently created, which is currently located in Cairo Egypt, into Syria (which France and the UK already 'officially' recognize as "the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people" btw)??? Through osmosis?
Get a clue…