CIA Helping Boost Arms Shipments To Syria Rebels

[Purveyor]

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, March 25, 2013 3:57 EDT

Arab nations and Turkey, helped by the CIA, have dramatically increased military aid to Syrian rebels in recent months, The New York Times reported Monday.

The US Central Intelligence Agency was helping their efforts, the newspaper added, citing air traffic data and interviews with unnamed officials and the rebel commanders.

The airlift has grown to include more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara, and at other Turkish and Jordanian airports, the report said.

US intelligence officers have helped the Arab governments shop for weapons, including a large procurement from Croatia, it said. They had also vetted rebel commanders and groups to determine who should receive the weapons as they arrive.

Turkey had overseen much of the program, fixing transponders to trucks ferrying the military goods through Turkey so it could monitor shipments, the paper added.

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Well if some did come from Croatia

that could have some bearing on the their EU membership which is due to start this July. The EU has an embargo on arms to Syria period.

[idwiyo]

2. How much of it ended up in AQ hands? Am I suppose to believe CIA when they say none?

Like hell I will.

Thank you, Obama, thank you my own UK government. 3 countries fucked up beyond belief are not enough, lets do one more. After all, life is FABULOUS in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya after UK and US decided to get rid of existing dictators. The replacements are soooo much better. Just look at the democracy flourishing there right bloody now! Brings a tear to my eye. It does.

Oh well, at least oil companies and military contractors are damn happy.

[TwilightGardener]

3. This crap was started by Clinton, and Petraeus--when he wasn't busy humping his mistress.

Disappointed that Obama has been in this up to his elbows. So we're not handing them arms ourselves, just directing the flow. I'm SURE it won't come back to bite us in the ass, right? I'm still wondering why "Assad MUST GO!", frankly. I've come to the conclusion that it takes a real bastard to keep a lid on the middle east. Throw out the secular bastards we know (Hussein, Assad), usher in the religous nutcase bastards. What difference does it make?