CIA Arming Syrian Insurgents – by Stephen Lendman

On June 21, The New York Times headlined “CIA Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” saying:

Operating covertly from southern Turkey, CIA operatives are “decid(ing) which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.”

Weapons supplied include “automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition, (and) antitank weapons….”

They’re smuggled across Turkey’s border through “a shadowy network of intermediaries….”

They’re also entering through Lebanon.

Muslim Brotherhood officials are involved. So are Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, other Gulf States, Jordan and Israel.

Obama denies what other

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