Report: Syrian Rebels Claim They’ve Received Weapons From the US
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 6:34 PM
According to a recent report the rebels in Syria say they have received weapons from the United States and France.
The UN Security Council has urged China and Russia not to veto a new resolution that is being proposed for Syria. New numbers show that nearly 7,500 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war and meanwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a war criminal. According to some reports, anti-government rebels have claimed they received weapons from American and French sources.
Politicons reported on this from Iranian Press TV:
Armed groups in Syria have admitted that they have received weapons from French and American sources, reports say.
A defected military officer, who refused to be named, told reporters in the western Syrian city of Al-Qusayr on Tuesday that armed groups receive “French and American assistance.”
He then clarified that the group had received weapons and anti-aircraft missiles from France and the United States.
“We now have weapons and anti-aircraft missiles and… we will defeat Bashar [al-Assad],” the general said.
His comments came days after some of the Western and Arab countries said that they would support Syria’s anti-government groups by arming them and supplying them with financial support.
This is while as the first step toward implementing reforms with the aim of ending unrest, the Syrian government has recently endorsed a new draft constitution that was approved by nearly 90 percent of eligible voters in a Sunday referendum.
Russia, however, has continued calling for the resolution of Syrian crisis through dialogue, showing unabated opposition to the interference of Western powers in the affairs of the Arab state.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 52 Comments
Srsly...? commented:
Why are you quoting from Press TV?
This is the official media if the Iranian government.
The interview holocaust deniers as “experts”, and
make up phony, conspiracy minded stories about
the actions of the US military.
They’re a government mouthpiece, and you ate merrily
spreading their propaganda.
Freddy commented:
I wonder if they will be using those weapons to attack the Israeli or US military?
Adi commented:
Iranian Press TV is *so* much in love with the Syrian protesters and the USA, and they have *all* the professional journalistic interest to report the news in an impartial way.
spongedocks commented:
Weapons…..not yet…..placating them for a while, this was a planted story by the Pentagon….France has provided non-weapons stuff….but not arms….however, they are staged and ready when approval is given…..Wait a week or so…..
Obamas regulation destroy jobs commented:
OMG this is another Watergate!
democraps suck commented:
How cn you trust what any mooslum says…if true…way to go odumbo…how many wars are you going to drag us into
Robert commented:
These “rebels” will be our great friends
after they overthrow the tyrannical Assad.
Right?
Tjexcite commented:
Some money was sent to a factory in Lithuania then sent to a bank in Turkmenistan. Then forward to a gun manufacturer in Argentina to make M-16, AK-47 and AK-74 all at the same time. Then sold to a gun runner from Brazil and shipped across the ocean with pineapples to a gun runner from America in Turkey and then smuggled across the boarder in boxes of dates. Just so they can say the are from America and they are American brand of guns yet not really from the official American chain of gun makers.
Iran-Contra only had a few hands this regime would use hundreds of hands and no three know the others to move stuff around. To get reelected and start a war.
jony101 commented:
maybe the only good thing obama has done this year. But i think its just a rumour, I suspect he likes assad too much to stab him in the back.
MilitantCatholic commented:
Where are the legions of anti-war and nonviolence Leftists to march on the White House? The other day, I actually saw a car with Obama 2012 on a bumpersticker and right next to it was War Is Not The Answer. You Liberals will do anything to prevent yourselves from seeing the truth.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Bwaaahahahahaahahaaa!!!!
Opaobie commented:
The only American weapons that should be “delivered” to them are the ones that explode when they hit their targets after WE fire them.
ahem commented:
When the Assad government falls, these weapons will be used to murder Christians. Good show, Barry!
onbe commented:
They promised to show the weapons *yet* didn’t imagine that.The distance shot of the table of weapons did not look like the advanced firearms the dude was talking about.
squeaky commented:
earlier she thought they could get arms but now not so much. if there was any leaning towards the rebels some aid may have been given and if so there may be some serious nerves being rattled that this doesn’t come back to bite. hamas has left syria and sided with the brotherhood…..a suni vs shia rock n’ roll.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57386279/clinton-arming-syrian-rebels-could-help-al-qaeda/
FurryGuy commented:
Well, Fast and Furious worked out so well, so why not run guns to rebels in Syria.
If you really have to ask if the preceding was sarcasm, you have your answer already.
guy commented:
It wasn’t long ago Hillary said assad was a moderate, wow what 6 months will do to a to change a liberals view.
Ripped commented:
Another Libya in the making. When will we learn that our failed foreign policy of the last 40 years just isn’t working.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Oh, yes, let’s intervene in Syria!
‘Cuz it’s worked out so well in Afghanistan! /sarc.
Peter Warner commented:
The situation in Syria is not simple. For one thing, if Assad is removed, the Christian community will become more endangered. There’s no question that he’s been a thug, but he has provided some protection for minorities, possibly because his prime support comes from a minority tribe itself.
This report helps get more of a sense of the tangled mess:
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/19183
I don’t pretend to understand what is best. I fully supported the removal of Hussein in Iraq, but one result of that has been the massive (but not yet complete) exodus of the Christian community. All I can do with clarity is pray.
I truly hope Hillary has competent advisors. China and Russia’s veto of the Security Council motion might not have been a bad thing after all.
God be with us.
Best regards, Peter Warner.
Jerry C commented:
@ #9 jony101-”maybe the only good thing obama has done this year. But i think its just a rumour, I suspect he likes assad too much to stab him in the back.”
The Lying-Usurper-in-Thief POS (LUITPOS) is a sunni muslim. Assad of Syria is shiite muslim (just like Amadmanjihad of Iran). Just like the LUITPOS aided in taking out Mubarack in Egypt and replacing him with the Muslim Brotherhood, so too will he help to remove Assad and install them there in Syria as well.
LUITPOS will do all these works just in time to create an islamic Caliphate where he will be called the 12th Imam and rule over the world as king. Once that happens, he’ll declare islam the world religion & require everyone to receive his Mark on his head or right hand. If you do not swear alegiance to him & islam, your head will be removed. There’s a thousands years old book that explains what’s going to happen. It’s called the Holy Bible.
jorgen commented:
Are these rebels are the same as the ones AQ supports?
Avanti commented:
Everything is connected with criminal elite bankers: Rockfellers and Rothschilds. Let’s go to a dip history folks.
lolatsrsly commented:
@”SrSly”: Because the media sources you follow are likely a joke too, but we dont necessarily like press tv either. But I get it, tow the party line, believe everything the tv says.
I have ZERO love for the Iranian/Syrian govts btw.
PS. Just because you or the media you love labels person by person as ‘holocaust deniers” or “conspiracy theorists”, doesnt mean they actually are.
Slowly but surely your ilk doesnt get to make that decision by simply saying it anymore.