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- Syrian Rebels Get Arms with Gulf Money, U.S. Coordination - Karen DeYoung and Liz Sly
Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks including antitank weaponry, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the U.S., according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. U.S. contacts with the rebel military and information-sharing with Gulf nations mark a shift in Obama administration policy as hopes dim for a political solution. Many officials now consider an expanding military confrontation in Syria to be inevitable.
The flow of weapons significantly increased after a decision by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf states to provide millions of dollars in funding each month. Syria's Muslim Brotherhood said it has opened its own supply channel to the rebels, using resources from wealthy private individuals and money from Gulf states. "Large shipments have got through," said one opposition figure. "Some areas are loaded with weapons." (Washington Post)
- Iran's Foreign Minister Was Involved in Clandestine Nuclear Program - Tabassum Zakaria
Communications from the 1990s suggest Iran's current foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, had knowledge of a program to procure goods for a clandestine nuclear program, U.S. nuclear expert David Albright, founder of the Institute for Science and International Security, said Tuesday.
A letter signed by Salehi as head of Sharif University in 1991 served as an end-user guarantee to a European supplier of materials that could have a dual purpose for use in a nuclear program. Sharif University was acting essentially as a front for Iran's military procurement network, Albright said.
"Salehi knew about or was involved in efforts to create an alleged parallel military nuclear program that is of great interest to the IAEA now," Albright said.
(Reuters)
- Israeli Group Wins $323 Million Suit in U.S. Against Iran and Syria for Restaurant Bombing
A U.S. court awarded a $323 million judgment against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, that represents victims of Palestinian violence, said Tuesday. Daniel Wultz, 16, of Florida was killed when an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber set off his explosives at a Tel Aviv restaurant.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said in the Monday ruling, "When a state chooses to use terror as a policy tool - as Iran and Syria continue to do - that state forfeits its sovereign immunity and deserves unadorned condemnation. Barbaric acts like the April 17, 2006, suicide bombing have no place in civilized society and present a moral depravity that knows no bounds."
(AP-Washington Post)
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