What’s Happening in Syria?

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6. Is the US waging a covert war in syria? (3/12)

WikiLeaks recently published hacked emails from the global intelligence firm Stratfor, and in one of them, Reva Bhalla, the Director of Analysis, allegedly said he attended a meeting at the Pentagon in December of last year and was told U.S. and NATO soldiers are in Syria giving training to the rebels there. The email went on to say the newly trained troops were to “. . . commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns, try to break the back of the Alawite forces, [and] elicit collapse from within. . .”

Other cables released by WikiLeaks have shown the U.S. State Department has secretly funded Syrian opposition groups for at least half a decade through a group of Syrian exiles in London called the Movement for Justice and Development.

Read more: http://technorati.com/politics/article/is-the-us-waging-a-covert/#ixzz1t1c7AFJO