Warlord
05-31-2013, 03:42 PM
Looks like the Obama administration is going to use the UK as a proxy and were lobbying to lift the EU arms embargo so this would be a backdoor way of supplying al-Qaeda and fueling the insurgency while also being able to deny it due to skeptical opposition in the US:
“The precise timing has not yet been finalised and no decision has yet been taken. But we are likely to be ... shipping arms to the rebels by August,” the official said.
“What I expect is that over the next two or three months western powers will move low-grade arms supplies in bulk to the rebels. The rebels need ammunition, and a lot of it, just to keep fighting.”
Another British official told the FT that there were strong expectations in Britain and France that the US might also provide weapons supplies if peace talks fail, despite the reluctance so far of the Obama administration to step up its engagement in Syria.
In recent weeks, the US had secretly undertaken significant lobbying of EU member states in order to get the EU arms embargo amended, the official said.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2040500-ca05-11e2-af47-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fh ome_uk%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz2UuOYVhb8
“The precise timing has not yet been finalised and no decision has yet been taken. But we are likely to be ... shipping arms to the rebels by August,” the official said.
“What I expect is that over the next two or three months western powers will move low-grade arms supplies in bulk to the rebels. The rebels need ammunition, and a lot of it, just to keep fighting.”
Another British official told the FT that there were strong expectations in Britain and France that the US might also provide weapons supplies if peace talks fail, despite the reluctance so far of the Obama administration to step up its engagement in Syria.
In recent weeks, the US had secretly undertaken significant lobbying of EU member states in order to get the EU arms embargo amended, the official said.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2040500-ca05-11e2-af47-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fh ome_uk%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz2UuOYVhb8