Saudi Arabia Sends Military Equipment To Syrian Rebels
By PanARMENIAN
Saudi Arabia is delivering military equipment to Syrian rebels in an effort to stop bloodshed by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a top Arab diplomat said on Saturday, March 17.
“Saudi military equipment is on its way to Jordan to arm the Free Syrian Army,” the diplomat said.
“This is a Saudi initiative to stop the massacres in Syria,” he added saying further “details will follow at a later time.”
The announcement came two days after the kingdom said it had shut down its embassy in Syria and withdrawn all its staff.
It also followed a brief meeting on the Syrian crisis last week between Jordan’s King Abdullah and the Saudi monarch in Riyadh.
There was no official reaction to the statement from Riyadh or Amman, which this month called for a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis, arguing Jordan was among the worst affected by its repercussions.
Jordan shares its northern border with Syria, through which more than 65 percent of its trade transits. According to local officials, some 80,000 Syrians are estimated to have fled to the kingdom since March 2011, AFP reported.
Since when do armamentsof any kind”stop bloodshed?
All supplies to any/all participants in the fighting there need to cease. Maybe then there will esist an incentive to negotiate a solution and stop the killings by any/all participants.
With the example of Libya it is clear that outside intervention is not constuctive. The same tribal-ethnic problems from before the revolution have again surfaced.
Both Lybya and Syria along with many others will haveto workout their own indigenous solutions without the hypocritical NATO’s help.