Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: US holds high-level talks with Syrian rebels seeking weapons in Washington

Perbacco, che rivelazione!  Chi avrebbe mai sospettato che 
l'insurrezione in Siria fosse fomentata e pilotata da potenze straniere 
coordinate dall'imperialismo statunitense?
 
Fomentano la guerra civile, forniscono armi e copertura di ogni genere 
al mucchio selvaggio che chiamano insorti, si spacciano per pacifisti 
umanitari, e molti gli credono.
 
La capacità di manipolazione delle coscienze dell'oligarchia al potere è 
enorme, e senza scrupoli.
 
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US holds high-level talks with Syrian rebels seeking weapons in Washington
 
By Peter Foster, and Ruth Sherlock in Washington
6:30PM BST 15 Jun 2012
 
A senior Free Syrian Army representative met in the past week at the US 
State Department with the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford and 
Frederick Hoff, special coordinator for the Middle East, sources have 
confirmed.
 
The rebel emissaries, armed with an iPad showing detailed plans on 
Google Earth identifying rebel positions and regime targets, have also 
met with senior members of the National Security Council, which advises 
President Obama on national security policy.
 
FSA representatives in Washington have compiled a "targeted list" of 
heavy weaponry, including anti-tank missiles and heavy machine guns that 
they plan to present to US government officials in the coming two weeks.
 
The consultations come ahead of next week's G20 meeting in Los Cabos, 
Mexico where British and US officials are expected to make a last-ditch 
attempt to get the Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene in the 
Syria crisis.
 
Privately, western diplomats admit they now harbour scant hopes of 
forcing a change of heart on Russia, which has steadfastly refused to 
bow to US and British pressure to do more to arrest Syria's slide into 
sectarian civil war.
 
While there remains little appetite for direct western military 
intervention, the Daily Telegraph has learned that advanced contingency 
plans are already in place to supply heavy weapons to the rebels, 
including sophisticated anti-tank weapons and surface to-air-missiles.
 
The move towards what was described as a "Libya lite" intervention in 
Syria is expected to gather force following the anticipated failure of 
the Annan peace plan and the meeting of the Syria Contact Group 
scheduled for June 30 in Geneva.
 
Senior Middle Eastern diplomatic sources said that Libyan-supplied 
weapons, paid for by Saudi Arabia and Qatari government funds and 
private donations, had already been stockpiled in anticipation of the 
"inevitable" intervention needed to end the Assad regime.
 
"The intervention will happen. It is not a question of 'if', but 'when'. 
The Libyans are willing to provide the anti-tank weapons, others are 
prepared to pay for it," the source said
 
He added, however, that Turkey would "not open the floodgates" of acting 
as a conduit for the arms without Nato and US-backing that would 
guarantee them support in the event of a Syrian backlash, possibly 
mobilising Syrian Kurdish groups against Turkey.
 
Middle Eastern diplomatic sources said that the Obama administration was 
fully aware of the preparations being made to arm Syrian opposition groups.
 
The US has also agreed to be part of a group of countries that 
coordinates assistance to the rebels, the sources said, but was still 
deliberating over the time frame for escalation.
 
The Obama administration, which campaigned on a promise to end the wars 
in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been reluctant to give the greenlight to 
military intervention in Syria as they seek a second term from a 
war-weary electorate.
 
However proponents of arming the rebels are now arguing forcefully that 
US inaction leaves Mr Obama vulnerable to accusations from the 
Republican camp that he is 'leading from behind' at the cost of 
thousands of innocent Syrian lives – a charge that would stick if there 
was another massacre.
 
Those in Washington who are lobbying on behalf of the rebel Free Syrian 
Army are aware of the limited political impetus for intervention in an 
election year, and that any deal would most likely need to be struck 
before influential congressmen return to their districts for summer 
recess in July.
 
Reports that heavy anti-tank weapons had been smuggled into Syria this 
week were denied by FSA sources that said that the rebels were still 
armed only with RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenades.
 
However the Daily Telegraph understands that the contacts between rebels 
groups and senior US government officials have now reached the "getting 
to know you stage" as the administration faces the growing likelihood it 
will have to sanction some kind of indirect intervention.
 
The US defence establishment is concerned that sophisticated weapons 
could fall into the hands of Islamist militants, or accelerate the cycle 
of sectarian revenge-killings, rather than bring about the swift demise 
of the Assad regime.
 
The FSA has long been seen as the name given to a collection of 
disparate militias. The movement has established a better command and 
control structure on the ground in recent months, setting up opposition 
military councils in ten Syrian cities and towns, including in the capital.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9334707/US-holds-high-level-talks-with-Syrian-rebels-seeking-weapons-in-Washington.html#
 
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 umanitari, e molti gli credono.
 
perchè sperano di ottenere qualche briciola dal padrone che si ingozza
a più non posso, ecco perchè lo applaudono...

dall'imperialismo statunitense?
 
se leggi l'articolo al limite è il contrario :-))