Money delivered by French government proxies across
Turkish border has been used to buy weapons and ammunition
France has emerged as the
most prominent backer of Syria's armed opposition and is
now directly funding rebel groups around Aleppo as part of a new push to oust
the embattled Assad regime.
Large sums of cash have been delivered by French government proxies across
the Turkish border to rebel commanders in the past month, diplomatic sources
have confirmed. The money has been used to buy weapons inside Syria and to fund
armed operations against loyalist forces.The French moves have stopped short of direct supply of weapons – a bridge that no western state has yet been willing to cross in Syria. But, according to western and Turkish officials as well as rebel leaders, the influx of money has made a difference in recent weeks as momentum on the battlefields of the north steadily shifts towards the opposition.
Some of the French cash has reached Islamist groups who were desperately short of ammunition and who had increasingly turned for help towards al-Qaida aligned jihadist groups in and around Aleppo......"
No comments:
Post a Comment