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Covert US plan to arm rebels
Topic Started: Dec 10 12, 2:28 (893 Views)
ALAN
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bad news for iran and iraq :-D


THE United States is launching a covert operation to send weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time as it ramps up military efforts to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

Mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles will be sent through friendly Middle Eastern countries already supplying the rebels, according to well-placed diplomatic sources.

The Americans have bought some of the weapons from the stockpiles of Muammar Gadaffi, the Libyan dictator killed last year. They include SA-7 missiles, which can be used to shoot down aircraft.

The rebels are gaining ground after 20 months of civil war in which an estimated 40,000 Syrians have died. They have entered the suburbs of Damascus and have surrounded its airport. US State Department officials are in regular contact with rebel field commanders, talking to them on Skype for hours every day. The commanders have repeatedly pressed for more weapons.

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Kurdistano
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Is this really that positive in Kurdish view? Do you believe these "friendly Middle Eastern countries" will give it to the Kurds too? What if these weapons are turned to Kurds later.

However if these weapons are also transfered from KRG gate, things might look different.
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ALAN
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US will not allow them to use the weapons against kurds, US has now a great interest in kurds and KRG due to their long oil deals with KRG via Exxon and Chevron which are 20+ years, if kurds are attacked their interests will be at stage imo, plus KRG has far more advanced and heavy weapons than the FSA has, so no worries there at all. once assad falls syria will be a hostile nation towards iraq and iran not KRG or kurds in WK, as long as PYD keeps its unity with KNC in the high supreme council.

also KRG's massive oil reserve needs another route in the future besides the pipelines under construction via turkey, and that route will be through WK.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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