Source: Itar-Tass
“Huge batches of small arms and
munitions for the Syrian Liberation Army’s troops are supplied from
Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, but unofficially, not through these countries’
governments,” the source said. “The supply list includes sub-machine
guns, machine guns, sniper rifles and antitank grenade launchers.”
Russia’s military expert, Lieutenant
General Leonid Sazhin told Itar-Tass that “the scenario that has already
been developed and administered by the United States and their NATO
allies, mainly by France, Britain and Turkey, as well as the monarchy
regimes from the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, in
particular Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is being
implemented in Syria.”
“This scenario was developed taking into
account recent events in Libya, Egypt and other countries of the region
with only one reservation – the lack of the UN Security Council
resolution needed for the West. In fact, we see an unannounced military
interference of some NATO member-states and countries of the region into
Syria’s domestic affairs, who side with one of the conflicting parties –
the armed opposition,” he said.
Sazhin noted that in addition to the
Syrian National Council Syria’s refugees and army deserters in Turkey
create a military structure - Supreme Revolutionary Council – led by
Syrian army general Mustafa Ahmed al-Sheikh, who deserted to
neighbouring Turkey.
“The main task of the Supreme
Revolutionary Council is to coordinate actions of the armed opposition
on the Syrian territory and to engage to its ranks new members both in
Syria and beyond its borders to oust Bashar al-Assad exclusively through
the use of force,” he said.
“As concerns weapons supplied to the
troops of the Syrian Liberation Army, most of them were in service with
the armed forces of former members of the Warsaw Treaty. After the
countries joined NATO and re-equipped its troops with NATO’s samples,
weapons were collected and piled up at storage facilities and depots,
from where they are now taken and flow to Syria,” he said.
The expert did not rule out that some weapons can be fake Soviet weapon systems.
