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US grants Syrian opposition diplomatic status
AlJazeera ^ | May 6, 2014

Posted on 05/06/2014 8:15:47 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The United States has said it will recognise the offices of the main opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) as a diplomatic foreign mission and announced plans for a $27m increase in non-lethal assistance to rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

The announcement came at the start of a visit to Washington on Monday by a Syrian opposition delegation led by Ahmad Jarba, president of the coalition, in his first official visit to the US since the SNC was set up in 2012.

Jarba is set to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday.

State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said Washington was announcing new measures "to empower the moderate Syrian opposition and to bolster its efforts to help" those in Syria.

The US now recognises the coalition's representative offices in Washington and New York as "foreign missions under the Foreign Missions Act."

The upgrade will facilitate banking and security services for the opposition in the US and help it reach out to Syrians living in the US, Harf said. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; clintons; hillary; kerry; mccain; obama; terrorists
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Ahmad Jarba is in Washington to ask for more sophisticated surface-to-air and antitank weapons.
1 posted on 05/06/2014 8:15:47 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sowing.


2 posted on 05/06/2014 8:17:48 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

U.S. recognizes Al Qaeda in Syria.

The exact same guys who were murdering our boys in Iraq.

The exact same Al Qaeda in Syria to whom Benghazi arms flowed with the CIA’s help.


3 posted on 05/06/2014 8:18:00 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
U.S. recognizes Al Qaeda in Syria.

My thoughts exactly. Next up for Al Qaeda is the U.N. with Obama as the official sponsor.

4 posted on 05/06/2014 8:20:29 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Uncle Miltie

Let’s put it slightly differently to account for nuances on the ground:

ANY support sent to Syria is co-opted into Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda and other allied Islamists are the core of Assad’s opponents. They can control essentially everything outside of Assad’s patch.

Recognizing (or sending arms to) any of Assad’s opponents supports Al Qaeda indirectly, and KNOWINGLY.


5 posted on 05/06/2014 8:21:05 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The US will assist with the genocide of Syrian Christians.


6 posted on 05/06/2014 8:21:06 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Uncle Miltie

This guy is now implementing stupid on top of stupid on top of stupid.


7 posted on 05/06/2014 8:22:05 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: InterceptPoint

With al Qaida’s Nusra Front leading, Islamists seize control of Syria-Turkey border crossing

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/24/222225/with-al-qaidas-nusra-front-leading.html#storylink=cpy


8 posted on 05/06/2014 8:22:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

That’s my take on it.


9 posted on 05/06/2014 8:22:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Uncle Miltie

Radical Islamists ‘control much of northern Syria’
Published: November 07, 2013

CNN claims ISIS has taken control of key entry points into the city of Aleppo.
David Holt / Flickr / Creative Commons
A new survey of Syrian towns by CNN suggests that much of northern Syria has come under the control of radical Islamist groups.

https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2013/10/2803031/


10 posted on 05/06/2014 8:23:13 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: pallis

With Islamists now in firm control of Syria rebellion, civil war might last years

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/12/12/211529/with-islamists-now-in-firm-control.html#storylink=cpy


11 posted on 05/06/2014 8:23:54 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

It’s been a struggle to figure out which side is worse, but after several years it’s clear that Assad is the lesser of two evils in Syria


12 posted on 05/06/2014 8:24:48 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Uncle Miltie

Good post. We are watching the legitimatization of Al Qaeda by this administration evolving.


13 posted on 05/06/2014 8:25:34 AM PDT by Starboard
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Special Report: Syria’s Islamists seize control as moderates dither

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/19/us-syria-rebels-islamists-specialreport-idUSBRE95I0BC20130619


14 posted on 05/06/2014 8:25:36 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

We need to pray that Assad crushes this rebellion very soon.


15 posted on 05/06/2014 8:25:42 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

0bama KNOWS any support of Assad’s opposition is effective SUPPORT OF AL QAEDA.

That’s the POINT!


16 posted on 05/06/2014 8:26:22 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Continuing to arm the Muslim Brotherhood, even after the Benghazi debacle.
This is either stupid or treason, or both, so it’s not surprising from Barry & Co.


17 posted on 05/06/2014 8:30:07 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Obama’s got to take care of his Al-Qaeda buddies. Makes one wonder what Obama was doing on 9/11? Dancing in the streets with Islamist buddies? He sure has proven his dislike of the USA.


18 posted on 05/06/2014 8:34:52 AM PDT by kenmcg (b)
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To: InterceptPoint

But...But...the interventionists say that we have to engage in all forms of interventionism, “propping up,” etc.


19 posted on 05/06/2014 8:35:39 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Uncle Miltie

We’ve switched sides in the war on terror.

Maybe it would be easier if Obama issued a decree that we all just kill ourselves.


20 posted on 05/06/2014 8:36:20 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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