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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Arab League says members free to offer Syria rebels arms
2013-03-07
[Al Ahram] Arab states are free to offer military support to rebels fighting the forces of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
if they wish, a final statement of Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
ministers said on Wednesday.

Previously the League had stressed that the Syrian opposition and rebels should be supported by humanitarian and diplomatic means.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
a final statement issued at the end of a meeting of the ministers in Cairo said they had "stressed the right of each state according to its wishes to offer all types of self defence, including military, to support the resilience of the Syrian people and the Free (Syrian) Army."

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby told a news conference that the ministers had invited the opposition Syrian National Coalition - an umbrella body for anti-Assad political and rebel groups - to occupy the seat of Syria at the League.

This was held by Damascus
...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat...
until it was suspended from the organization in 2011.

The statement called on the coalition to choose a representative to attend a League meeting to be held in Doha on 26 to 27 March.
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