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U.S. intelligence: Iraq base moves to Syria
On: Tuesday 21/2/2012 9:49
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reported, "Christian Science Monitor," U.S. to U.S. intelligence officials believe that al-Qaeda in Iraq is working along with the Syrian opposition to the Syrian territory, and most likely to be responsible for the bombings in Damascus and Aleppo in the last few weeks.
The newspaper quoted these extracts from officials at the CIA in testimony before the U.S. Congress.
According to U.S. newspaper, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said before a committee in the U.S. Senate, that "Al Qaeda is in Iraq began to expand his duties in Syria."
The Chief of Staff U.S. Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey was considered the first of yesterday that any possible interference in Syria would be "very difficult", and saw that he was "too early" to think of arming the Syrian opposition to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Gen. Dempsey told the News Network U.S., "CNN that "that" intervention in Syria would be very difficult, and I think that the road currently used, which requires work to find an international consensus (against Syria) is the right way, and not make a decision to intervene unilaterally. "
He also contended that the American general he was "too early to make a decision to arm Opposition in Syria, and I challenge whoever that determines me clearly the identity of the Syrian opposition now. "
The U.S. television network "NBC" reported Saturday that the U.S. aircraft military drone or a U.S. intelligence based reconnaissance flights in Syrian airspace to pursue military operations taking place in this country and targeting civilians.
and asked the paper if it is possible that this information is incorrect, noting that "for the first time a senior U.S. official announcement about the involvement of al-Qaeda in the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, which began peacefully about a year ago."
she said Clapper told the paper that came after a report McClatchy newspaper, close to the agency, "CIA," the American, who noted that al Qaeda was behind the bombings in Syria. The newspaper quoted U.S. officials as saying that the rule encouraged by Ayman al-Zawahiri to participate in the recent events, the Egyptian radical who assumed the leadership of al Qaeda in Pakistan after the assassinated U.S. forces of Osama bin Laden.
She added that "Clapper pointed out that al-Qaeda joined the secret to some military groups splinter, known as the Syrian army free to respond to the brutal repression perpetrated by the Assad regime in the face of his opponents. "
According to the newspaper, the Clapper attributed what he called the situation alarming in the recent period, to the involvement of al-Qaeda in juvenile Syrian, without There the opposition informed.
and see Syria in more than 11 months, a protest movement against the regime of President Assad inflicted by human rights activists more than six thousand people.
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