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(For years now, I have been posting excerpts from a WSJ article written
in 2012 about the CIA blocking MANPADs from reaching the Syrian rebels
from Libya. It was only now that I discovered from Michael Karadjis's
article that it was also blocking anti-tank weapons. So, when Assadists
used to "explain" the embargo on MANPADs being dictated by the need to
protect civilian airliners, I should have asked them whether tanks were
being used to bus children to school in Damascus. Given the mindset of
Max Blumenthal, Vanessa Beeley, et al, I am surprised that I didn't get
such an argument.)
The Australian, August 13, 2012
CIA polices weapons entry to Syria as the spooks invade Turkey
Byline: JOHN FOLLAIN, TONY ALLEN-MILLS, ISTANBUL WASHINGTON
DESPITE mounting calls in Washington for a more aggressive US military
role in Syria, the CIA has been quietly working along its northern
border with Turkey to limit the supplies of weapons and ammunition
reaching rebel forces, Syrian opposition officials say.
``Not one bullet enters Syria without US approval,'' one official
complained in Istanbul. ``The Americans want the (rebellion) to
continue, but they are not allowing enough supplies in to make the
Damascus regime fall.''
Details of the CIA's policing activities offer a rare insight into the
complex struggle for regional advantage that is rapidly developing at
the margins of the Syrian civil war. Conducted mostly by clandestine
agents from the US, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iran, the conflict
has turned Turkey's rugged border provinces into a hotbed of arms
dealers, spies and would-be fighters.
Over the past 10 months, a Syrian opposition official told The Sunday
Times, the CIA has blocked shipments of heavy anti-tank and
anti-aircraft weapons, which rebel units of the Free Syrian Army have
long said are vital to their efforts to overthrow the regime of
President Bashar al-Assad. At the same time they have approved supplies
of AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles, and just over a month ago gave the green
light to a shipment of 10,000 Russian-made rocket-propelled grenades.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/cia-polices-weapons-entry-to-syria-as-spooks-invade-turkey/news-story/4209b7f1bce83979b8af29edb1128681
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