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Documents show US funding Syrian opposition: Washington Post
[Arab News] The State Department has been secretly financing opponents of Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad,
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
 The Washington Post reported, citing previously undisclosed diplomatic documents provided to the newspaper by the WikiLeaks website.
One wonders why WaPo chose to publicize this little tidbit, which plays right into Pencilneck's attempts to label all dissenters as enemies of the state in thrall to the Zionists and the Great Satan. It's almost as if WaPo has an agenda...
One of the outfits funded by the US is Barada TV, a London-based satellite channel that broadcasts anti-government news into Syria, the Post reported Sunday.

Barada's chief editor, Malik Al-Abdeh, is a cofounder of the Syrian exile group Movement for Justice and Development.

The leaked documents show that the US has provided at least $6 million to Barada TV and other opposition groups inside Syria, the newspaper said.

The B.O. regime has reached out to Assad's regime, hoping to persuade it to change its policies regarding Israel, Leb, Iraq and support for Islamic exemplar groups. In January, the US stationed an ambassador in Damascus,
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
 the capital, for the first time in five years.

The Post said it was not clear from the WikiLeaks documents whether the US was still financing Assad's opponents, though they showed funding had been set aside through September 2010.

Syrian activists have been staging protests against Assad's authoritarian regime for more than a month. More than 200 people have been killed as security forces tried to crush the protests.

On Sunday, gunnies opened fire during a funeral for a slain anti-government protester, killing at least three people, according to witnesses and activists. Tens of thousands of Syrians erupted into the streets nationwide despite Assad's promise to end nearly 50 years of emergency rule this week, a key demand of the protesters.

Last week, the State Department said Iran appeared to be helping Syria crack down on protesters, calling it a troubling example of Iranian meddling in the region.

"If Syria's turning to Iran for help, it can't be very serious about real reform," front man Mark Toner told news hounds.
Posted by: Fred 2011-04-19
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