U.S. Considers Stepping Up Rebel Support -- Wall Street Journal
White House Plan Would Transfer Responsibility for Arming and Training Opposition Forces to the Pentagon From the CIA
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is considering putting the Pentagon in charge of arming and training moderate rebel forces in Syria, a move that could help expand the effort significantly beyond the limited scope of the current Central Intelligence Agency program, U.S. officials said.
These internal discussions come as Congress begins a debate over a resolution to authorize limited strikes against Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons last month.
The move would substantially revamp one of the administration's most secretive and controversial undertakings in the 2½-year-old civil war. President Barack Obama authorized the CIA program in June after Hezbollah's large-scale entry into the conflict on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's side and a U.S. determination that Syrian forces had used chemical arms in small amounts in earlier clashes.
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Update #1: Pentagon may take charge of arming Syrian rebels: US officials -- France 24/AFP
Update #2: Pentagon may help arm Syrian rebels -- SKY News
My Comment: What I fund comical about this report is that the U.S. has yet to arm the rebels .... something that they promised to do so a few months ago.
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