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August 23rd, 2014 
David Schulberg “The Syrian rebels deserve all our support.” Francois Hollande was clear on his position in Syria, ravaged by civil war for more than three years, in his interview with the newspaper Le Monde Thursday.
A few hours later, this Thursday, during a visit to the meeting, the head of french State went further, confirming a rumor that ran for several months. The France well delivered weapons to the Syrians rebels, fighting against loyalist forces.
These shipments occurred “several months ago, when Syrian rebels were facing both the armies of dictator Bashar al-Assad and the behavior of this terrorist group, the Islamic State”, detailed Hollande. “We couldn’t let the only Syrians, who were preparing the democracy, be without weapons”, he justified.
To pursue: “even today, it is terrible what is happening in Syria”, with “on one side, the State of Bashar al-Assad who continues to bombard and kill, (on the other) Islamic State and, in the Middle, those who were supposed to prepare the future and who are caught. And to conclude: “we must not release the support that we had given to these rebels who are the only ones to participate in the democratic spirit. Information travelling since 2013 without actually confirmed by the authorities.
In March of that same year, the Nouvel Observateur said indeed that the France had delivered weapons to the rebels. According to the weekly, which cited an anonymous source in the State apparatus, the president had begun shipping in mid-December 2012, “together with Britain and the United States. Francois Hollande confirmed again Thursday that such an operation cannot “get one” and “is done in harmony with Europe and the Americans”. Ahmed, 13 (left), and Faris, 16 years old, are fighting within the brigade Sadeq Al Amin, alongside rebels.
Many young Syrians have been recruited as soldiers. (AFP/Mahmud al-Halabi) The groups which were intended weapons were carefully “selected by intelligence”, according to le Nouvel Observateur. The person was the president of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib (who has resigned since), “sole representative of the Syrian people.” Delivered weapons were “minor equipment, mainly ammunition and assault rifles type Famas.
Since the beginning of the war in Syria, in March 2011, several rebel groups have formed to fight against the regime in place. Western authorities, the EU and the United States, have recognized the army Syrian free (ASL), whose headquarters is based in Turkey. The Group acknowledged the authority of the (CNS) Syrian national Council. . You must visit the following page to learn more about this great subject.
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