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Debate_on_Food_Stamps_Sheryl_Stolberg_
NYT_September_4,2013.pdf;
Brutality_of_Syrian_Rebels_Posing_Dilemma_in_West_C.J._Chiviers_NYT_September_5,
_20I3.pdf;
What_the_intelligence_on_Syria_shows,_in_one_graphic_Sean ... made no sense, as the government military were on the verge of destroying the rebel forces. — But
then dictators often over-play their hands, example; Japan's attack on Pearl ... price that that will be extracted for any systematic killing by anyone, government or rebels.
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War is ugly. People who kill or being threaten by death often are killers
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Libya rebels desperately short of funds - latimes.com Page 1 of 3
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Libya rebels desperately short of funds
Even as rebel commanders predict victory is near, the rebel ... American wife advertisement
and two children in Seattle and flew to this Libyan rebel
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finances ... Libyan American who
founded a software tech company in Seattle and advises
the rebel Transitional National Council on finances and
oil.
Even as rebel commanders predict that victory over
Libyan
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casualty. We did it all from the skies. The ground was thick
with indigenous rebels, so no American ground troops were required.
Qaddafi had no friends to come ... like a sadistic mad scientist if Americans
hadn't provided air support for the rebels. He received no money, no
weapons, no training, no diplomatic cover—nothing—from the United ... says CFR President Emeritus Les Gelb. He argues that
Washington should pressure moderate Sunni rebels to work, at least
temporarily, with the Assad government in defeating the hard-line Islamists
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York Times
July 15, 2011
Libya Rebels Get Formal Backing, and $3o Billion
By SEBNEM ARSU and STEVEN ERLANGER
ISTANBUL — The United States formally recognized the rebel leadership in Libya ... country's
legitimate government on Friday, allowing the rebel government access to $30 billion in Libyan assets
held in the United States. It is not yet clear how and when ... Colonel Qaddafi to step down, but
also held the prospect of funneling money to rebels to propel an offensive that has proceeded in fits and
starts.
Although American officials expressed
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already been
affected positively and negatively by its commitments in Iraq.
Going forward, Syrian rebel factions may take advantage of the
ISIS campaign in Iraq to move against the group ... ISIS and perhaps weaken its ability to fight in Syria.
Effects on Syrian Rebels and the Assad Regime
ISIS now faces a potential three-front war: against various
Syrian rebel ... defend its
territory in Raqqa and Aleppo provinces appears to have
weakened recently, and rebels have been able to take some
advantage of this. At the same time, the ISIS
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YORK TIMES
WORLD
SATURDAY PROFILE
Rebel Libya Finance Chief Hunts for Funds and Hope
Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times
"I'm sick and tired of this. We literally ... hove days before the lights ore off," said Libya's rebel finance
minister, Ali Tarhouni, center, meeting with supporters in Benghazi.
By KAREEM FAHIM
Published: June 04, 2011
BENGHAZI, Libya ... reassured that everything
would be all right.
For hours on Sunday, Libya's rebel finance minister, Ali Tarhouni, fielded requests and juggled crises
during a dash of a day that
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organizations, called themselves
the "Friends of Syria" and declared open support for the rebels fighting
the Syrian army. The Friends also announced substantial financial support
for the rebellion, including ... international organizations aiding
the Syrian opposition. This assistance will include satellite
communications equipment for rebel fighters and night vision goggles.
Attending the conference, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said
discussions ... best to expand this support."
The broad and growing international support for the Syrian rebels is no
doubt motivated by several concerns. On a humanitarian level, Bashar al-
Assad
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that Syria won't relinquish its
chemical weapons unless the U.S. stops arming the rebels,
which the CIA began doing in recent weeks, according to Syrian
figures and American officials ... Independent Commission of
Enquiry on Syria, suggested in an interview that the rebels had
used sarin gas, a claim quickly rejected by the Free Syrian Army
(FSA). Gwyn Winfield ... editorial director of CBRNe World,
argues that the rebels possess the experience and perhaps also
the delivery capability to launch a chemical attack, and that it is
possible that
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that mark a
shift in favour of Bashar al-Assad against the increasingly fragmented
rebels seeking to oust him.
Since the August 21 nerve gas attacks on rebel suburbs ringing ... Assad ally,
to decommission Syria's chemical arsenal, has wrong-footed the rebels,
now under intense U.S. and European pressure to attend talks in Geneva
with a vague agenda.
Syrian ... Assad administration's legitimacy, even
as it uses tactics such as the starvation of rebel areas to try to regain
control.
TOPPLING ASSAD NOT A PRIORITY
Regional analysts and diplomats
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BEIRUT — American antitank missiles supplied to Syrian rebels are playing an unexpectedly prominent
role in shaping the Syrian battlefield, giving the conflict the semblance of a proxy ... greater significance than was originally intended.
So successful have they been in driving rebel gains in northwestern Syria that rebels call the missile the
"Assad Tamer," a play ... great success to slow the Russian-backed offensive aimed at recapturing ground from the rebels.
Since Wednesday, when Syrian troops launched their first offensive backed by the might of Russia
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fighters have fallen in and around the
strategic Syrian town of Qusayr. Outgunned Syrian rebels have held on for
a week there against a frontal assault by Hezbollah and Syrian ... West, thrown off balance by the
rise of jihadist factions among the Syrian rebels, will not jump in on the
rebel side. The United States' call for a political solution ... while allowing
Saudi Arabia and Qatar to arm the rebels, likewise, seems to have not
shaken his confidence. To the contrary, Mr. Assad can now head into
negotiations planned
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that
killed more than 1,400 Syrians was carried out by the rebels.
The U.S. will now try to enforce a U.S.-Russian agreement on the
elimination of Syria ... standoff was a classic game of "chicken,"
the game played by James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" when he was
challenged by a bully named Buzz to race stolen ... little reason
to cooperate and every reason to retaliate in kind, or worse. (In "Rebel,"
Buzz's gang blames Jim for their buddy's death and hound him until
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effective stalemate: the regime of President Bashar
Assad is unable to destroy the rebels, and the rebels are unable to destroy
the regime. Given the sectarian stakes and the danger ... well as a fear of the growing influence of extremist
elements among the rebels, the U.S. has held back from direct intervention,
and even from enabling the rebels to receive ... Syria, even if limited to enforcing a "no-fly zone" or protecting a rebel-
controlled enclave — much to the frustration of allies such as Turkey and
France. The Obama Administration
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Western
boots on the ground, but for the vigorous arming of the rebels,
the creation of humanitarian corridors, the imposition of no-fly
zones and, if Mr Assad ignored them ... heavy weaponry. At the time Mr Assad's
regime was reeling, most of the rebels were relatively moderate,
the death toll was less than half the current total ... other countries. Some of Mr Obama's
advisers also urged him to arm the rebels; distracted by his
election, he rebuffed them—and now faces, as he was repeatedly
warned
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good. It can
be worse. I am awed at the bravery of those Syrian rebels who started this
uprising, peacefully, without any arms, against a regime that plays by
what ... armed, feared and trusted midwife will
dare enter the fray in Syria, the rebels on the ground there will have to do
it themselves. Given Syria's fractured society, that ... many of them
openly sectarian. The absence of a coherent political leadership over the
rebel militias raises the specter of chaos after Assad goes — exacerbated
by the likelihood that
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good. It can be worse. I am awed at the bravery
of those Syrian rebels who started this uprising,
peacefully, without any arms, against a regime that
plays by what ... armed, feared and
trusted midwife will dare enter the fray in Syria, the
rebels on the ground there will have to do it
themselves. Given Syria's fractured society, that ... sectarian. The absence of a coherent
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political leadership over the rebel militias raises the
specter of chaos after Assad goes — exacerbated by
the likelihood that
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