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Friday, August 3, 2012

Obama supports rebels in Syria $ 25 million for "non-lethal" equipment


In Syria rebels and government provide the decisive battle and U.S. intelligence agencies seem to mix.President Obama has signed several months ago, seems an appropriate secret decree. According to a report by the U.S. news channel CNN U.S. President Barack Obama has already some time ago, American aid to the Syrian rebels allowed.As the station on Wednesday evening (local time), citing U.S. officials, reported going to the secret decree that clandestine support for the insurgents allowed by the CIA and other agencies.What kind of help it is just not acting, was clear, it is said on CNN.It is also not known when the President had signed the directive.The sources said that it had happened in the past few months.By his own account of U.S. support for the rebels in Syria with around 25 million dollars (20 million €).The number of Foreign Ministry spokesman called on Wednesday in a press conference in Washington.The amount was last raised 10 million dollars.The money, according to the U.S. government for so-called "non-lethal" equipment designed, including medicine and communication technology.Washington also provides $ 64 million for humanitarian assistance through the United Nations and other groups.


Fighter jets through Aleppo


In the battle near Aleppo leaves the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the metropolis of fighter jets bombed from the air.UN observers had seen it with my own eyes, a spokeswoman for the mission said on Wednesday in Damascus.The UN observers also reported that the insurgents would continue rearming and now even tanks.The origin was unclear.The Syrian army Free (FSA) is supported by the Gulf states, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.It is also to suggest that the rebels have captured in their most recent conquests even weapons.The regime makes "extensive use" of heavy weapons, including helicopters, tanks, artillery and heavy machine guns.


Directed toward rebel regime Faithful


In the metropolis appear to be several local leader of the feared militia loyal to the regime Schabiha of insurgents were executed.A video that appeared on Wednesday at the Internet website YouTube, shows how three or four men out in their underwear in a schoolyard, set against a wall and then shot from semi-automatic weapons.The authenticity of the video and its contents are not verifiable to outsiders.In the English description is one of those executed as Ali El Abdin Sain Barre ("Zeno") is described.Have been as head of the clan and the Barre-formed by him Schabiha local militia, he is responsible for the killing of 15 insurgents.The Schabiha militias have in the fight against critics of the regime a free hand, and stand almost outside the law. In Damascus on Wednesday for the first time fighting flared on nearby Christian town.The shootings took place, according to the Syrian human rights monitors on the edges of the neighborhoods of Bab Tuma and Bab Scharki.The Christians are in Syria for about ten percent of the population.The riots are over, most of them reserved, because they fearthat could take over after a fall Assad's Islamists to power.

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