{"id":16766,"date":"2013-03-02T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T11:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2013-03-02T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T11:16:14","slug":"officials-us-to-provide-syrian-rebels-with-direct-military-aid-armored-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/03\/officials-us-to-provide-syrian-rebels-with-direct-military-aid-armored-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: US to Provide Syrian Rebels With Direct Military Aid, Armored Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The US is looking to dramatically broaden the definition of \u201cnon-lethal support\u201d as it relates to Syria\u2019s rebel factions, according to European officials familiar with recent private meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.antiwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/syria3.gif?resize=328%2C353\" width=\"328\" height=\"353\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Expanding the definition, the<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-considers-direct-aid-to-syrian-rebels\/2013\/02\/26\/4af93d3c-8033-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_print.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">US is poised to shift policy<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">toward providing body armor, direct combat training and even armored personnel carriers to rebel factions, as it continues to help<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/in-depth\/middle-east-in-turmoil\/saudi-arabia-arming-syrian-rebels-with-weapons-from-croatia-report-says\/story-fn7ycml4-1226586577265\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">and other nations<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/06\/21\/cia-funneling-arms-to-syrian-rebels-through-turkey\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">deliver the weaponry<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">behind the ongoing rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Specific details about the plan, to the extent they are ever revealed to the public at all, are likely to come during this week\u2019s Rome conference for the various Syrian rebel factions, which Kerry has been hyping and encouraging rebel groups to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The EU is set to get in on the action as well, with officials claiming a secret clause was inserted into the renewal of a ban on arms to Syria to allow virtually anything that doesn\u2019t in and of itself kill people, including night-vision goggles and sniper scopes, to be sent as \u201cnon-lethal aid\u201d for their \u201chumanitarian\u201d mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/02\/26\/officials-us-to-provide-syrian-rebels-with-direct-military-aid-armored-vehicles\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is looking to dramatically broaden the definition of \u201cnon-lethal support\u201d as it relates to Syria\u2019s rebel factions, according to European officials familiar 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