Nidal

“You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil, they’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil.”

  • Syrian Group in U.S. Seeks to Arm Rebels
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/world/middleeast/syrian-group-in-united-states-seeks-to-arm-rebels-against-assad.html

    The Syrian Support Group came together late last year, uniting a diaspora of émigrés with close family, social and cultural ties inside Syria. Like the protesters in Syria, they began by advocating peaceful political change, but as the Syrian government cracked down ever more forcefully, they, too, became more militant, making contacts with the rebel military commands that took shape in Syria’s major cities.

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    The group became more organized last spring when it formally incorporated, started its Web site and, in May, hired a former NATO political officer, Brian Sayers, as its director of government relations in Washington after finding him through an online employment agency.

    Yep. Un ancien officier politique de l’OTAN. Et vous n’auriez pas un ancien commissaire politique de la CIA pour faire le ménage dans vos bureaux, aussi ?

    • @ Nidal : Le Wall Street Journal avait évoqué l’autorisation reçue par ce groupe de collecter de l’argent aux USA. Chose intéressante, qui va dans le sens de ta remarque sarcastique finale, le site du groupe avait été créé le 8 juin, et l’autorisation du Département du Trésor ne s’était pas faite attendre puisqu’elle était arrivée à peine un mois plus tard : http://seenthis.net/messages/80790
      Au minimum on dira que ces gens là ont de l’entregent...