The above picture shows a T-72 tank on fire after an attack by Syrian rebels. The article below outlines how the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda in Syria are obtaining anti-tank arms secretly from the Obama administration's directive to "up the military stake in the effort to oust Assad".
The stakes are high in Syria due to the strategic Russian naval base in Tartus. This is not about a civil war in Syria but a game of chess between Russia and the United States and the probability of a world war as a consequence is increasing. Is this worth the price of supporting a new Muslim Caliphate?
David DeGerolamo
Secretary Ban Ki-moon said he was "extremely troubled about the risk of an all-out civil war (in Syria) and was concerned about the outbreak of related violence in Lebanon."
He spoke as dozens of Syrians died in clashes - mostly in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib and the town of Homs - while two people were killed in Beirut in a spillover of Syrian bloodshed.
Sunday, at the NATO summit in Chicago, Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen said firmly that the alliance has "no intention" of taking military action against President Bashar Assad's regime. But he said nothing about individual NATO members translating their concern about the escalating violence in Syria into military action. Above all, he did not explain why Syrian army heavy T-72 tanks have in recent days started bursting into flames on the open roads.
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose the cause: The Syrian rebels have received their first “third generation” anti-tank weapons, 9K115-2 Metis-M and Kornet E. They are supplied by Saudi and Qatari intelligence agencies following a secret message from President Barack Obama advising them to up the military stake in the effort to oust Assad.
Saturday, May 19, President Obama said in a speech to the G-8 summit at Camp David that “Bashar al-Assad must leave power.” Listening to him were Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev whose government strongly opposes the bid to topple Assad and is helping him to weather the uprising against his rule.
Medvedev and Chinese leader Hu Jintao both kept silent after Obama spoke. Both would have had intelligence updates relayed to Camp David on the latest turn of events in Syria.
The supply of powerful anti-tank missiles to the Syrian rebels is intended to achieve two purposes:
1. To impede Syrian military tank movements between flashpoints. During the 14-month uprising, there was nothing to stop Syrian tanks criss-crossing the country as back-up for the official crackdown on dissent. But in recent weeks, trucks hauling the T-72 are being blown up before they reach their destinations.
2. The sight of blazing tanks is intended to undermine army morale and puncture the self-assurance of the security circles surrounding the president.
The anti-tank missiles reaching the rebels through Saudi and Qatari channels are only one facet of the unfolding US plan for the Syrian crisis, our military sources report. Turkish intelligence has been given the green light to arm Syria rebels with IED roadside bombs tailored for the Syrian theater and intensively train the dissidents in their use at Turkish military facilities. This is tantamount to Ankara’s first direct military intervention in Syria.
How will Assad and his backers in Tehran and Moscow handle the upscale of rebel munitions?
According to our sources, the Syrian ruler and his cronies are not shaken in their conviction that even with heavy weapons in play they will suppress the revolt, because the majority of the population is still behind the regime and because the rebels will find it hard to wield the advanced systems, especially by day.
But his Russian and Iranian military and intelligence advisers are growing less sanguine as they watch foreign military intervention expand step by step. They are warning the Syrian ruler that the advanced missiles reaching the rebels represent the most dangerous development his regime has faced to date. They reckon that, after failing to ignite a full-dress unified rebellion inside the main Syrian cities, the West and the Arab states have turned to equipping anti-Assad rebel forces for pursuing sustained guerilla warfare between the big cities - on the main roads and in rural and mountainous areas.
Russian and Iranian tacticians agree that the Syrian army, like most other regular armies, is not trained or structured for combating guerilla forces. Adapting it to the new peril would be a long process. Source
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Comment by Sossy pilavjian on May 28, 2012 at 11:45pm The Syrian Orthodox Church is worried about “an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians” in the embattled city of Homs, reports Agenzia Fides, the official Vatican news agency.
Anti-government militants have expelled 90% of Christians in Homs and confiscated their residences by force, said Fides, citing a note sent to the agency by the Syrian Orthodox Church.
The Vatican agency cited sources saying militants went door to door in the Homs neighborhoods of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan, “forcing Christians to flee, without giving them the chance to take their belongings.”
Estimates vary, but Syria’s Christians, with ancient roots, are generally said to represent as much as 10% of the nation’s 23 million people.
Syria’s Christian community has generally been regarded as supportive of the secular goverment of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which, despite its systematic repression of political dissent, has been tolerant of religious minorities.
The year-old Syrian insurgency is rooted in the nation’s Sunni Muslim majority, though the uprising has supporters from other faiths, including Christians. Assad and many of his security force chiefs are from the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Comment by Ed Stoneham on May 26, 2012 at 8:33pm Frankly, I'm glad to see Syria undergoing the same kind of turmoil that they exported to Lebanon. Let them eat their own medicine. It's also quite clever that Russian weapons are being used to destroy Russian tanks in Syria. Russia probably won't object too much, since this gives Russia a lucrative replacement market. Our next president should do his best to prolong the conflict in Syria, keeping them out of action as we promote similar situations in Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Libia, and anywhere else Mohammedanism rules.
You see, Mohammedans are raised under a bloodthirsty, cult-like religion that make them a danger to the rest of the world. Their surplus of unwed men and their inbred hatred also make them a danger to each other. The experience of history and the teachings of Christianity both indicate that Mohammedanism will destroy itself. I see no harm in supplying fuel for the fire. Any flames that reach our shores can be dealt with while the inferno within the Mohammedan heartlands consumes the evil miscreants.
Surely it is not Obama's aim to help Mohammedans meet their own demise, but Obama, being infected with the same immorality, makes the same mistakes. Let's not worry about correcting those mistakes. Obama and his Muslim buddies certainly aren't worried about helping us in any way. There's no need to worry about helping them.
Comment by Billy Bowlegs on May 26, 2012 at 3:02pm 
How the Americans will be armed by Obama.
Comment by Pat Chadwell on May 26, 2012 at 10:53am Think of this... In March of this year on this side of the border 1000`s of arms were found with ammo. which includes stingers, granade launchers and rocket launcher, over 50 stolen vans to haul the arms and most of which came from the arms that Libya had in their stock and is now in the hands of the muslims and is being shipped to be used by the terrorist in Syria and here in the USA, Its just when that they start using them on America....
Comment by ANDREW SCHRAG on May 26, 2012 at 10:22am I have alway thought that it was the CIA that help overthrow governments that we did not favor, now it is the President of the U.S. passing out classifed/secret intelligence on means and methods, latest arms to rebels within a country...What happens when this comes home to roost? I can find no justification for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood other than Obama being Muslim as Rev. Wright claims..
Comment by FRANK CARTER on May 26, 2012 at 9:58am ARMING THE MUSLUMS FOR ANY REASON IS A MISTAKE. UNLESS YOU JUST HAPPEN TO BE MUSLUM YOURSELF.
Comment by Dennis Donner on May 26, 2012 at 8:51am Thanks for the story
Comment by Vern Shotwell on May 26, 2012 at 8:21am @Kristin
Careful, I was on the scene and helped a little! The Mojahedin were quite loyal, and wished only a bit of technical support. But "we" made many unnecessary, unrequested promises for future aid. After the USSR went belly up, we reneged on everything. I'd not have trusted the US either....
Comment by Kristin Fecteau on May 26, 2012 at 8:05am Reminds me of when we funded and armed the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan because they were fighting Russia there. Now where did that put us? Currently having to fight those evil cave dwellers!
Comment by Vern Shotwell on May 26, 2012 at 6:09am Both the 9K115-2 Metis-M and the Kornet E missiles supplied at the behest of Obama are Russian systems. They will defeat the armor of the Russian T72 tank.
As such, they are capable of defeating at least the American M-60, Israeli Merkava MK2 as well as comparable British and German tanks.
So, Obama move described above endangers us, our allies as well as armor of client states.
The coup de grace is the supply of Russian missiles! One must do all possible to support the Russian economy! Certainly nothing should be done to employ American workers, Corporations, or balance of trade!
The cu de gras
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