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| France Delivered Weapons to Syria Rebels, Book Reveals | |
| 2015-05-07 | |
| [AnNahar] French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... admitted to delivering weapons to Syrian rebels in 2012 despite an embargo, according to a new book coming out in La Belle France this month. "We began when we were certain they would end up in the right hands. For the lethal weapons it was our services who delivered them," Hollande told author Xavier Panon in an interview in May last year. Hopefully the correct Political Foundations were remunerated. This always helps pave the way. The book by the journalist specializing in diplomatic and military issues, is entitled "In the corridors of French diplomacy". Panon wrote that La Belle France delivered canons, machine guns, rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles to the rebels fighting Bashir al-Assad's regime in an uprising that has turned into all-out civil war and drawn in thousands of foreign jihadists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says over 200,000 people have been killed in the fighting.
At the time an European embargo on weapons was in place since June 2011. It was lifted in May 2013. Until now, La Belle France has only admitted to delivering non-lethal weapons to the rebels such as bullet-proof jackets or night-vision goggles. The book traces a series of diplomatic and military moves by the French government both under Hollande and previous president Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... One of these was the planned air strikes against the Syrian regime for its use of chemical weapons in August 2013 which Washington backed down from after a diplomatic agreement. The book names several planned targets of the strikes such as the "intelligence unit of the Syrian army which controls the chemical system." A political adviser told the author the planned strikes had two objectives, to change the "political order" in Syria and to destabilize Russia, which backs Damascus, to pressure Moscow into changing its approach to the conflict. Sounds like a job for some 'international aid' workers. | |
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