What’s Happening in Syria?

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8. Asia Times is also full of crap. Why does it only have that info, and no other sources do.

Did you know that it was reported that the US tipped off the Syrian regime about the arms from Libya. It was revealed in one of the Assad emails that were hacked. However, I do not dispute that there are possibly Libyans in Syria but they are few and far between and have not been able to have any significant impact.



WASHINGTON
As the United Nations prepares to deploy more monitors to Syria, the options being considered in Washington to support the country's opposition are narrow. The ceasefire brokered by Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, is barely holding and most observers in Washington believe the six-point plan will fail.

If it does, there is growing awareness that US policy to end the Syrian president Bashar Al Assad's rule - "the day that we know will come", as the US president Barack Obama said Monday - will necessitate a more robust approach. Mr Obama announced on Monday what the White House touted as new types of sanctions, targeting companies both within and outside Syria dealing in information technology that could be used by the Damascus regime to suppress protests.

In an election year in which the Obama administration is likely to tout its withdrawal of troops from Iraq and its commitment to doing the same in Afghanistan as significant achievements to a public weary of overseas interventions, US policy is likely to be further constrained.

Nevertheless, Mr Heydemann said, there remain a number of options open to the US, including working with the Group of Friends of Syria, in which Saudi Arabia and Qatar have promised to help finance the armed Syrian opposition.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/grumbling-from-washington-but-policy-on-syria-has-few-alternatives?

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have PROMISED to help - but the Syrians themselves have reported that they have not received anything.

There are a wealth of articles you should read to get both sides of the story, so that the truth can be determined not just from the biased info that comes from Stratfor and Asia Times.

Meanwhile, Assad continues to slaughter his people, and thousands have been arrested. No big deal, huh?