06-10-2013, 08:36 PM
And the U.S. might arm them.............
WASHINGTON, June 10 — The United States could make a decision as early as this week on whether to arm Syrian rebels, US officials said today, as US Secretary of State John Kerry put off a Middle East trip to attend meetings on the subject.
However, the US government has debated for months whether to provide weaponry to the rebels in their civil war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and has so far decided against.
US Secretary of State John Kerry. — Reuters picOne US official who spoke on condition of anonymity stressed that while a decision on whether to start arming the rebels is possible as soon as this week, deliberations on the issue could easily take longer.
Kerry put off a planned trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories to attend the White House meetings, an Obama administration source said.
What has changed in recent weeks is the tilting of the battlefield against the rebels as Lebanese Hezbollah has entered the fray on the side of Assad’s forces, helping them to retake the strategic town of Qusair. .
That shift has made it less likely that a US and Russian planned peace conference to bring the rebels and the government to the table would succeed in US President Barack Obama’s aim of a negotiated political transition to remove Assad from power.
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WASHINGTON, June 10 — The United States could make a decision as early as this week on whether to arm Syrian rebels, US officials said today, as US Secretary of State John Kerry put off a Middle East trip to attend meetings on the subject.
However, the US government has debated for months whether to provide weaponry to the rebels in their civil war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and has so far decided against.
US Secretary of State John Kerry. — Reuters picOne US official who spoke on condition of anonymity stressed that while a decision on whether to start arming the rebels is possible as soon as this week, deliberations on the issue could easily take longer.
Kerry put off a planned trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories to attend the White House meetings, an Obama administration source said.
What has changed in recent weeks is the tilting of the battlefield against the rebels as Lebanese Hezbollah has entered the fray on the side of Assad’s forces, helping them to retake the strategic town of Qusair. .
That shift has made it less likely that a US and Russian planned peace conference to bring the rebels and the government to the table would succeed in US President Barack Obama’s aim of a negotiated political transition to remove Assad from power.
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