A large number of Lebanese armed rebels fighting against the Syrian government have contacted and informed their families that they cannot return to Lebanon despite trying hard to do so, media reports said.
Scores of Lebanese armed men who went to Syria from Lebanon’s Borj al-Barajeneh district in the Southern Beirut have phoned their families in Lebanon via Turkish telecommunication lines, the Lebanese Arab-language newspaper al-Akhbar reported.
During their phone calls, the armed men have reiterated that they have given up hope and lost faith in their war on Damascus and want to return home, but they cannot.
The have termed the reason for their return to their country the deterioration of their situation in Syria.
Meantime, the Turkish newspaper Melliyet reported that more than 10,000 al-Qaeda terrorists have entered Syria via the Turkish border.
The daily said that the Turkish government fully supports al-Qaeda terrorists fighting against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
It noted that about 4,000 Turkish soldiers have conducted several joint military operations with al-Qaeda and Taliban forces against the Syrian government.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.
The US daily, Washington Post, reported in May that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups battling the President Bashar al-Assad’s government have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.
The newspaper, quoting opposition activists and US and foreign officials, reported that Obama administration officials emphasized the administration has expanded contacts with opposition military forces to provide the Persian Gulf nations with assessments of rebel credibility and command-and-control infrastructure.
According to the report, material is being stockpiled in Damascus, in Idlib near the Turkish border and in Zabadani on the Lebanese border.
Opposition activists who several months ago said the rebels were running out of ammunition said in May that the flow of weapons – most bought on the black market in neighboring countries or from elements of the Syrian military in the past – has significantly increased after a decision by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Persian Gulf states to provide millions of dollars in funding each month.
