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According to two Senior State Department Officials, Stevens escorted the Turkish Consul General out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 8:30 p.m. local time. Was Ali Sait Akin there to discuss a weapons transfer?
The Turks have nukes... right?
The Time reported that rebel sources who dealt with Okab Sakr say he was in the Turkish city of Antakya, overseeing the distribution of "small consignments of 50,000 Kalashnikov bullets and several dozen rocket-propelled grenades" to the Free Syrian Army. Free Syrian Army sources told the Time that Okab Sakr was designating the representatives in Syria to whom the Istanbul Center would funnel "Kalashnikov rifles, BKC machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition" to the Free Syrian Army. Rania Abouzeid wrote for the Time that "a secretive group operates something like a COMMAND CENTER IN ISTANBUL, directing the distribution of military supplies provided by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and transported with the help of Turkish intelligence to the Syrian border and then to the rebels," (my emphasis). Still according to the Time, the Free Syrian Army is nominally headed by Riad al-Asaad, who is based in Turkey.
Okab Sakr, Saudi Arabia's man in Istanbul
Riad al-Asaad, COMMANDER of the FREE SYRIAN ARMY, from TURKEY HEADQUARTERS.Are Riad al-Asaad's HQs in Istanbul? I dunno yet. Now the Daily Telegraph tells us that a military official said that "Mustafa Abdul Jalil [the interim Libyan president, post Gaddafi] sent him [Belhadj] there [in Turkey]," in November 2011. The Daily Telegrah quotes U.S. military officials saying Abdelhakim Belhadjs contact with the Syrian Free Army was part of a Lybian delegation to Turkey offering arms and fighters to the Turkish-backed Syrian jihadists.