On 9/16/13 11:31 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > "We urge Congress to prohibit the Central Intelligence Agency and other > U.S. intelligence agencies from supplying, or facilitating the supply > of, anti-aircraft weapons to armed rebels fighting in Syria." > > http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-block-supply?source=c.url&r_by=1135580 >
This is rather like beating down an open door. The CIA has been involved in blocking MANPAD's to the "moderates", let alone al-Qaeda. Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2012: U.S. officials say they are most worried about Russian-designed Manpads provided to Libya making their way to Syria. The U.S. intensified efforts to track and collect man-portable missiles after the 2011 fall of the country’s longtime strongman leader, Moammar Gadhafi. To keep control of the flow of weapons to the Syrian rebels, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar formed a joint operations room early this year in a covert project U.S. officials watched from afar. The U.S. has limited its support of the rebels to communications equipment, logistics and intelligence. But U.S. officials have coordinated with the trio of countries sending arms and munitions to the rebels. The Pentagon and CIA ramped up their presence on Turkey’s southern border as the weapons began to flow to the rebels in two to three shipments every week. In July, the U.S. effectively halted the delivery of at least 18 Manpads sourced from Libya, even as the rebels pleaded for more effective antiaircraft missiles to counter regime airstrikes in Aleppo, people familiar with that delivery said [emphasis added]. “We were told that we need to get our house in order on the ground, and that it wasn’t time yet,” said a rebel representative involved in the delivery. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
