Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Wikileaks SOF in Siria

 
 
Anche gli yankee in Siria da Dicembre
 
Mail leakata
 
si noti la follia di Mc Cain, da ricovero.
 
 
 
Special operations forces from the U.S. and its allies have been on the 
ground in Syria since at least December, according to confidential emails 
from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that were released by WikiLeaks.
 
An analyst from Stratfor claimed in December 2011 that officials at the 
Pentagon clued him in on covert military operations taking place in Syria. 
"After a couple hours of talking, they said without saying that SOF [Special 
Operations Forces] teams (presumably from US, UK, France, Jordan, Turkey) 
are already on the ground focused on recce [reconnaissance] missions and 
training opposition forces," the email said.
 
"One Air Force intel guy (US) said very carefully that there isn't much of a 
Free Syrian Army to train right now anyway, but all the operations being 
done now are being done out of 'prudence,'" it continued. "They have been 
told to prepare contingencies and be ready to act within 2-3 months, but 
they still stress that this is all being done as contingency planning, not 
as a move toward escalation."
 
Publicly, the Obama administration has retreated from its initial refusal to 
stay out of the conflict in Syria by agreeing this week to provide direct 
humanitarian and communications assistance to the Syrian opposition. While 
the official line remains to keep military options off the table for now, 
the change in policy could open the flood gates for expanded military 
intervention.
 
Complicating the official story, a report coming out of Lebanon this week 
claimed 13 French soldiers were captured in the Syrian city of Homs. The 
French Foreign Ministry denied the claims, saying there are no ground troops 
in Syria.
 
According to the Stratfor analyst, after rejecting the prospect of "an 
eventual air campaign," the officials at the Pentagon told him "the idea 
'hypothetically' is to commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns, 
try to break the back of the Alawite forces, elicit collapse from within."
 
The extent to which the information exchanged in the conversation was 
"hypothetical" is not clear and no U.S. official has made any comment on the 
information in the leaked email. The discussion appeared focused on 
contingency planning and the phrase "they said without saying" is never 
elaborated on. The date of the email coincides roughly with the first public 
reports of secret contingency planing in December.
 
Information in a report on Stratfor's website published March 7, 2012, 
appears to have been taken at least partially from this very email. It 
reads: "The U.S. military indeed has updated its order of battle for Syria 
in preparation for any contingency operations, and this work allegedly 
produced the best order of battle the United States has had on Syria since 
2001. However, contingency plans exist for numerous countries with which war 
is unlikely."
 
In congressional sessions with top military officials on Wednesday, some in 
Congressexpressed frustration with current policy, as articulated by Defense 
Secretary Leon Panetta and others. "I get irritated, I get angry," McCain 
insisted, accusing the U.S. military of "standing on the sidelines" instead 
of waging an all out war on Syria, as he proposed on Monday.
 
 

 Anche gli yankee in Siria da Dicembre
 
Anche? Perchè il governo siriano non mostra al mondo i 13 francesi 
prigionieri? Eh??
 
PP
 

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Penso li abbiano persi sull'interregionale
 
 
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"C'è stata una clamorosa evasione" (paracit.).
 
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Namib
 
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per lo stesso motivo per cui i negoziati per Shalit (o i blitz pe la
liberazione del nostro ingegnere morto ammazzato per colpa
dell'inettitudine britt) non si tengono in diretta tv?