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| Rebels brag about British and German spy aid |
| 2012-08-19 |
| Syrian rebels boasted at the weekend that British and German intelligence services are increasingly involved in covert operations to help the rebels topple President Bashar al-Assad. German and British spies are apparently passing on information about Syrian troop movements to the rebels. "We can be proud of the significant contribution we are making to the fall of the Assad regime," an official from Germany's BND foreign intelligence service told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag. The paper said that German spies were stationed off the Syrian coast and also active at a Nato base in Turkey, whose government is sheltering Free Syrian Army rebels. Britain's Sunday Times also said that British intelligence was helping rebels launch successful attacks on government forces with information gathered from listening posts in nearby Cyprus. And just two days after his appointment, new UN peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi came under fire from the rebels for reportedly refusing to say whether President Assad should stand down. The rebels lashed out at the new envoy, branding his view that it was too soon for him to call for Mr Assad to go "unacceptable." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Fighting AQ in Afghanistan, assisting AQ in Syria. Fails the test, but very British. British Army are in Cyprus to support the conflict in Afghanistan. The army has a reserve battalion ready to be deployed in 48 hrs notice who are the 2 Royal Anglians during Op Herrick 13-14. The airbase. RAF Akrotiri, is a base to 'decompress' the soldiers back from Afghan before they go back to UK. It is a strategic point of logistics between Afghan and UK both soldiers and equipment. The army is also there to protect the listening posts which catches radio frequencies and can listen in like a spying device but on a large scale. They look like large nets and are suspended by two large poles. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-08-19 18:55 |
| #1 More about the German spying Germany helping Syria rebels with spy ship intel: paper |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-08-19 15:38 |