CIA helps with the arming of Syrian rebels

Now it is "officially" CIA agents to keep information from the "New York Times' (NYT), based on U.S. government and intelligence circles refers to the border area with Syria. There, they will advise and allies "to pursue the question of which rebel groups are fighting the regular Syrian army to provide them with weapons." The primary objective of the CIA, it was about to deliver the military equipment to the right recipients. It must be prevented that the weapons fall into the hands of extremist organizations like Al-Qaeda, since these groups have an interest to take advantage of the unstable situation in Syria. "Strategic Partner" of the CIA in the Turkish-Syrian border is obviously the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, whose squad part of the "Free Syrian army" (FSA) and the "Syrian National Council", which is dominated by the West recognized umbrella organization of opposition. With the help of the Muslim Brotherhood, a network of intermediaries have been established, will be forwarded with the help of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey supplied grenades, ammunition and antitank weapons to the "correct addressee." To what extent is not known. Extremely difficult is likely to make the acquisition of knowledge about the more than 100 different rebel groups. Meanwhile, the war threatens to widen dangerous: Syria yesterday a Turkish fighter jet shot down. The Turkish government and the army leadership convened a crisis meeting.