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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Opposition Says Syrian Rebel Fighters To Get Salaries
2012-04-02
Rebels fighting the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
 in Syria will be paid salaries, the opposition Syrian National Council has announced.

Money will also be given to soldiers who defect from the government's army, the SNC added, after a "Friends of the Syrian people" summit in Turkey.

Conference delegates said wealthy Gulf Arab states would supply millions of dollars a month for the SNC fund.
The wealthy Gulf Arab states make an awful lot of promises. But nonetheless the Palestinian governments are going broke.
The meeting recognised the SNC as the "legitimate representative" of Syrians.

Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
 dubbed the gathering of some 70 Western and Arab foreign ministers in Istanbul as the "enemies of Syria", and key players remained absent, including Russia, China and Iran.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  And so now the proxy war between the Persians and the Arabs begins in earnest.

What role for the Turks?
Posted by: crosspatch   2012-04-02 02:46  

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