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US does not want to see Syrian regime 'collapse': CIA |
2015-03-15 |
[Hurriyet Daily News] CIA Director John Brennan said on March 13 the United States does not want to see a chaotic collapse of the Syrian regime as it could open the way to Islamist The spy agency chief said Washington had reason to worry about who might replace Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... if his government fell, given the rise of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other jihadists in Syria. "I think that's a legitimate concern," Brennan said when asked if the U.S. government feared who might succeed Assad. Speaking at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations, he said that "extremist elements" including ISIL and Al-Qaeda veterans are "ascendant right now" in some parts of Syria. "The last thing we want to do is allow them to march into Damascus. That's why it's important to bolster those forces within the Syrian opposition that are not hard boys," Brennan said. The U.S. military is funding the training and arming of "moderate" Syrian rebel forces but the effort is only now getting off the ground. Washington's stance is that Assad should have no role in Syria's future but President Barack Obama ...I am not a dictator! 's administration and other governments wanted to see a political solution that would ensure a representative government, he said. "None of us, Russia, the United States, coalition, and regional states, wants to see a collapse of the government and political institutions in Damascus," Brennan said. |
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