Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels

Mark Hosenball
Reuters
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Comment: The same rebels who the London Guardian admits are working with Al-Qaeda terrorists to commit bombings and massacres.

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said.

Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad.

This and other developments signal a shift toward growing, albeit still circumscribed, support for Assad’s armed opponents – a shift that intensified following last month’s failure of the U.N. Security Council to agree on tougher sanctions against the Damascus government.

The White House is for now apparently stopping short of giving the rebels lethal weapons, even as some U.S. allies do just that.

Full story here.

This article was posted: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 3:49 pm

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