Report Unveils Details about CIA Intelligence Support for Syrian Rebels

Media reports disclosed new details about the intelligence support provided by the CIA for the terrorist rebels in Syria.

The Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed former US officials as saying that the CIA has dispatched its officers to Turkey, to help vet the militants who receive arms supplies from Persian Gulf Arab states.

The CIA is also in cahoots with British, French and Jordanian intelligence services to train the militants how to use different types of weaponry, the report said on Saturday.

Earlier reports unveiled that the Saudi intelligence agency has provided financial support for the terrorist al-Qaeda-linked group of al-Nusra Front in Syria.

Citing foreign intelligence sources, the Intelligence Online Newsletter said Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), which is led by Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, took advantage of its communications with terrorists in Iraq to help establish al-Nusra Front, press tv reported.

“Thanks to funding from the General Intelligence Presidency and support from the Saudi intelligence in Lebanon, al-Nusra was able to swiftly arm its forces,” the report stated.

The Intelligence Online Newsletter also confirmed Saudi confidential documents indicating that the Saudi Interior Ministry had sent a military official into Syria in line with Riyadh’s plans to provide the militants with money and weapons.

The crisis began in Syria in mid-March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of Syrian security forces, have been killed in the turmoil. Several international human rights organizations say the militant groups have committed war crimes.

The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country.

On March 6, a commander of the terrorist Free Syrian Army issued a request for more arms and ammunition from the western countries to further assist the militants in Syria.