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The senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Republicans, laid out a series of diplomatic, humanitarian and military aid proposals that would put the United States squarely behind the effort to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The senators, both of whom are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that rebel fighters deserved to be armed and that helping them take on the Syrian government would aid Washington’s effort to weaken Iran.
The senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Republicans, laid out a series of diplomatic, humanitarian and military aid proposals that would put the United States squarely behind the effort to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The senators, both of whom are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that rebel fighters deserved to be armed and that helping them take on the Syrian government would aid Washingtons effort to weaken Iran.
NYT: US should help Syria rebels, McCain says - World news - The New York Times - msnbc.com
How are we supposed to pay for this? I thought we were broke? Just another examle of GOP saber rattling? Why does the GOP continue to fight to take Government assistance away from Americans, and give it to citizens of other countries?
When the GOP has the executive you may luck up on to a point.
If we could help these people I would be with them.
There needs to be a stronghold of rebels to defend like there was in Lybia.
I think The US should help peopel being murdered by their government if we can.
Helping Syria is bullshit.
Let the Arab League assist an Arab Country.
We are broke.
One source briefed by Western intelligence officials says of particular concern is the city of Derna on the Mediterranean coast some 160 miles (300 kilometers) west of the Egyptian border. The source tells CNN that hundreds of Islamist militants are present in and around the town, and there are camps where weapons and physical training are provided to militants. He said one official had described the area as "a disaster zone." Tensions have grown between local people and the militants. Last month, a number of Derna residents went to a camp on the outskirts of the city, according to the source, and forced militants to leave.
There have been a number of car bomb explosions in Derna in recent months, apparently as rival Islamist factions compete for supremacy in the area. One is said to have targeted Abdel Hakim al Hasadi, a former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who spent time in Afghanistan in the 1990s. He told reporters last year he had been handed over to the Americans and sent back to Libya, where he was jailed for six years. The LIFG formally repudiated al Qaeda in 2009 and disbanded shortly afterwards.
The source said that groups sympathetic to al Qaeda as well as former members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group had converged on Derna and the presence of one man was especially worrying: senior al Qaeda operative Abdul Basit Azuz. He had been sent to the area last spring by al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and now had some 300 men under his command. Azuz is operating at least one training facility and has sent some of his men to establish contact with other militant Islamist groups as far west as Brega, the source said.
Al-Zawahiris plan was for him to establish a "home base for al Qaeda" in Libya, the source said. A senior counter-terrorism official told CNN that western intelligence is aware of Azuzs presence, his recruitment and training of fighters, and believes his redeployment to Libya had the backing of al-Zawahiri. The official said it was unclear whether former LIFG militants were contesting Azuzz presence in Derna. It was possible, he said, that al Qaeda had grown strong enough in the area to deter such a confrontation. The threat to Western security posed by al Qaeda in eastern Libya was mainly over-the-horizon according to the official - but had the potential to become significant because of Libyas proximity to Europe.
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The senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Republicans, laid out a series of diplomatic, humanitarian and military aid proposals that would put the United States squarely behind the effort to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The senators, both of whom are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that rebel fighters deserved to be armed and that helping them take on the Syrian government would aid Washingtons effort to weaken Iran.
NYT: US should help Syria rebels, McCain says - World news - The New York Times - msnbc.com
How are we supposed to pay for this? I thought we were broke? Just another example of GOP saber rattling? Why does the GOP continue to fight to take Government assistance away from Americans, and give it to citizens of other countries?
