{"id":6586,"date":"2012-03-01T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2012-03-01T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:21:41","slug":"syrian-rebels-confirm-receiving-arms-from-western-arab-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Syrian rebels confirm receiving arms from Western &#038; Arab countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Syrian rebels confirm receiving arms from Western &#038; Arab countries<\/strong><br \/>\n24 February, 2012 &#8211; JafriaNew<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an international conference on Syria unrest in Tunisia, a Syrian opposition source said on Friday that several countries are providing armed groups in Syria with weapons, which are being smuggled into the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized foreign powers for ignoring the arms smuggling aimed at causing chaos in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Foreign Minister Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, attending the \u201dFriends of Syria\u201d conference has openly supported arming Assad opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The US has earlier said that it will consider military assistance to armed groups fighting the Syrian government. Pro-Israeli US Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, have also called for arming Syrian gangs with the help of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-opposition Friends of Syria conference organized by a number of Western countries and the Arab League kicked off in Tunisia on Friday to discuss Syria unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, China and Lebanon have shunned the conference, describing it as one-sided. The leader of Syria\u2019s opposition party, the Popular Front for Change and Liberation, has also slammed the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, hundreds of Assad supporters gathered outside the venue of the conference to condemn the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. The violence has claimed the lives of hundreds, reportedly including over 2,000 security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Damascus blames \u2018outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups\u2019 for the unrest, asserting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.  <a href=\"http:\/\/jafrianews.com\/2012\/02\/25\/syrian-rebels-confirm-receiving-arms-from-western-arab-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D6586&amp;text=Syrian+rebels+confirm+receiving+arms+from+Western+%26+Arab+countries&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian rebels confirm receiving arms from Western &#038; Arab countries 24 February, 2012 &#8211; JafriaNew Speaking at an international conference on Syria unrest in Tunisia, a Syrian opposition source said on Friday that several countries are providing armed groups in Syria with weapons, which are being smuggled into the country. He also criticized foreign powers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6586#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2438],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}