Konflikten i Syrien

According to the newspaper [New York Times], US intelligence agents assisted in purchasing ammunition for the rebels, in particular in Croatia. They also determined which oppositional formations needed weapons more than others.Turkish, Saudi Arabian and Qatari planes have already performed over 160 flights landing at Turkish and Jordanian airports.

According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, some 20 Syrians have received anti-tank weaponry training over the past three months. The paper has unveiled US plans to provide training for a total of 1,200 militants from the Free Syrian Army, an opposition force fighting the Assad regime.
Meantime, UK’s Guardian said British and French instructors were also in Jordan training Syrian rebels. Neither American nor French defense ministries have confirmed these reports, although the Pentagon acknowledged last October that a small group of US troops and military advisers had spent the summer in Jordan training the country’s military to act in case Syria used its chemical weapons. Allegedly, Syrians were also trained.

Britain has sent secret shipments of weapons worth 20 million sterling pound to Syrian rebels, Syria’s state-run media said Monday.
Media said the shipments had included machine guns, assault rifles, anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers, grenades and munitions.

He went on: “Keep in mind a nuclear bomb sounds like a huge device, but it can have a yield as small as the equivalent conventional payload carried by a formation of 5 F-15s. Sites in Syria are inaccessible to these jets due to the Russian support available in the field of air defense. So these strikes are an option for the west to implement its policy.”

The likely assailant in both cases is Israel he claims: “Israel is the only nation that can deploy these sorts of weapons with impunity without fear of a counter-attack. Syria has shown no appetite to get into a shooting fight even over the deployment of such weapons”.