CIA Guiding Arms To Syria Rebels -- The Australian.The Times
THE Obama administration has been quietly assisting a rapid expansion of clandestine arms deliveries from Arab governments to the Syrian rebels.
The CIA has been helping Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan to acquire large amounts of weaponry from third-party countries and to determine which rebel groups should receive the arms after they have been shipped through Turkey. US defence sources said the agency was ensuring the weapons were channelled through the rebels' recently formed Supreme Military Command to prevent them falling into the hands of jihadist groups.
The disclosure follows reports that the US and some of its European allies are secretly training rebel fighters at military camps in Jordan and that the CIA has stepped up its intelligence-sharing with moderate opposition groups.
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Update: Officials: Weapons supplies to Syrian rebels increase dramatically before a push on Damascus -- FOX News/AP
My Comment: As I had mentioned a few months ago, the gloves are off in the Syrian civil war. All sides are now being armed, and this has now become a conflict of attrition. The real big worry for me right now is ....will Hezbollah and/or Iran start to openly send in thousands of "volunteers" to assist Assad in this civil war.
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