Quintus Fabius schrieb:...

Stück für Stück werden die Regierungstruppen stärker, so mein Eindruck.

Zitat: Turkey, Jordan to Send US Arms to Syria Militants

TEHRAN (FNA)- The US spy agency is gearing up to send weapons to insurgent groups in Syria through secret bases in Turkey and Jordan, a new report said.

The bases are expected to begin conveying shipments of weapons and ammunition within weeks, the US daily, The Washington Post, reported Saturday, quoting unnamed American officials as saying.

"We have relationships today in Syria that we didn't have six months ago," US President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes said during a White House briefing Friday. The United States is capable of delivering material "not only into the country," Rhodes said, but "into the right hands".
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Zitat:John Kerry called for 'immediate' airstrikes on Syria
Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:54PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for “immediate” airstrikes on Syria following the White House’s claim that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against foreign-backed militant groups.

At a White House meeting last Wednesday, Kerry "vociferously" pushed for air strikes on Syrian airfields, Bloomberg reports.
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Zitat:Geheimnisverrat
Amerikanische Justiz ermittelt gegen General

28.06.2013 · Mit James Cartwright wird nun Amerikas vormals zweithöchster General beschuldigt, Informationen über den „Stuxnet“-Angriff auf das iranische Nuklearprogramm verraten zu haben.
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Der frühere zweithöchste Offizier des Landes wird beschuldigt, geheime Informationen über den „Stuxnet“-Angriff auf das iranische Atomprogramm an die „New York Times“ weitergegeben zu haben.
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Die „New York Times“ hatte im vergangenen Jahr berichtet, dass Cartwright unter dem damaligen Präsidenten George W. Bush die Idee für die Cyber-Operation mit dem Codenamen „Olympic Games“ gehabt und sie dann auch geleitet habe. Obama habe eine Beschleunigung des Programms angeordnet. 2010 seien dann bei einem Angriff mit dem „Stuxnet“-Virus vorübergehend 1000 Zentrifugen zur Urananreicherung im Iran lahmgelegt worden.

Der Zeitungsbericht beschrieb geheime Treffen im Weißen Haus und berief sich auf Interviews mit „derzeitigen und früheren amerikanischen, europäischen und israelischen Offiziellen, die in das Programm verwickelt waren“. Demnach habe der amerikanische Geheimdienst NSA zusammen mit Israelis „Stuxnet“ entwickelt.
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Zitat:U.S. arms showing up in hands of pro-Assad militias
Oren Dorell, USA TODAY 5:14 p.m. EDT July 10, 2013

U.S. and Western weapons have been reaching Iranian-backed Shiite militias fighting to keep Bashar Assad's forces in power in Syria.
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Many of the U.S. weapons in the hands of pro-Assad militia could have reached the black market after a major U.S. sales to Iraq in 2009, [...] The U.S. sale included 80,000 M-16s, 25,000 M-4s and 2,550 M-203 grenade launchers, according to an announcement Dec. 9, 2009, by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
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Based on more than 30 online forums and 100 Facebook pages, Smyth has found images of U.S. and Belgian weapons in the hands of members of various Iran-backed militias.
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One of the photos shows Jusoor Muhammed Isma'il, a Lebanese Hezbollah fighter, whose death was announced May 24. In the photo, Isma'il stands in a clearing in the woods by a rudimentary camp stove. Slung from his shoulders is an M-4 fitted with what looks like an EOTech targeting sight and an M-203 grenade launcher.
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Similar weapons appear in the hands of rebel fighters, including fighters with al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate the State Department has designated a terrorist group, in videos and photos from the civil war. This year, Eliot Higgins, a British military analyst, discovered video footage and photos posted to jihadi social media sites showing that al-Nusra had weapons purchased with Saudi money in Croatia and transferred to Syrian rebels through Jordan.

"This operation was run with full U.S. knowledge, and the arms were only meant to go to the FSA," Higgins said, referring to the secular-leaning Free Syrian Army that U.S. officials prefer to deal with. "After a couple of months, they began to appear in the hands of groups like Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, showing they had spread beyond the FSA."
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Zitat:US-Experte:
Syrische Luftwaffe könnte mit drei Schiffen ausgeschaltet werden

17:53 03/08/2013


WASHINGTON, 03. August (RIA Novosti). Eine totale Vernichtung der syrischen Flieger- und Luftabwehrkräfte wird nach Expertenansicht eine groß angelegte Militäroperation erforderlich machen.

"Um aber das Vorgehen der syrischen Luftwaffe gegen die Opposition zu stoppen, würden drei Schiffe und 24 Kampfflugzeuge ausreichen", ....

Zitat:Syrian Electronic Army Leader Says the Hacks Won’t Stop
Aug 14, 2013 2:16 PM EDT Updated

On Thursday, the Syrian Electronic Army reportedly hacked into Outbrain, a content recommendation company that is used by scores of major media outlets across the web. As a result, the hackers were able to redirect some stories on the Washington Post's website to their own
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This week’s hacks of the New York Post and SocialFlow show the Syrian Electronic Army is still on its game—and not going anywhere. Brian Ries talks to one of the group’s leaders.

They’ve infiltrated the Associated Press. They’ve pulled one over on The Onion. They’ve hit the BBC, NPR, Thomson Reuters, the Financial Times, and most recently, the New York Post.
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The hacker said his group’s main goal “has become known to all.”

“We want to see the world the truth about what is happening in Syria,” the hacker said. When asked what that “truth” is, the person stated: “There is no revolution in Syria, but terrorist groups killing people accusing Syrian Arab Army.”

The AP hack, however, was done to cause “damage to the U.S. economy.”
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Zitat:23. August 2013 13:38
Mutmaßlicher Chemiewaffen-Einsatz
Obama sieht US-Interessen durch Konflikt in Syrien gefährdet

Der syrische Bürgerkrieg berühre zentrale Interessen seines Landes: US-Präsident Obama äußert sich in TV-Interview zum Konflikt in Syrien.

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