(ANSAmed) - BEIRUT, FEBRUARY 20 - About 3,000 Syrian
militants opposing the regime in Damascus and Islamist extremist
movements have been trained by US forces in northern Jordan over
the past eight months in cooperation with the Jordanian army and
with other, unspecified Arab armies, according to Saudi pan Arab
daily al Hayat, which is based in London. The paper cited
sources with the Syrian armed opposition.
The newspaper did not only quote anonymous sources but also the leader of a Syrian rebel brigade, Ali Rifai, operating in Tell Shihab, a southern region of Daraa bordering with northern Jordan. According to the source, the standard training of thousands of Syrian rebels defined as ''moderate'' in military bases of the Jordanian army has lasts between eight to 12 days.
The training is monitored by US officers and focuses on the use of light and medium weapons like anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets.
The same newspaper said that, according to sources with insurgents in the Daraa region, munitions and weapons from the Hashemite kingdom have recently arrived , in particular anti-tank grenades and rockets. (ANSAmed).
The newspaper did not only quote anonymous sources but also the leader of a Syrian rebel brigade, Ali Rifai, operating in Tell Shihab, a southern region of Daraa bordering with northern Jordan. According to the source, the standard training of thousands of Syrian rebels defined as ''moderate'' in military bases of the Jordanian army has lasts between eight to 12 days.
The training is monitored by US officers and focuses on the use of light and medium weapons like anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets.
The same newspaper said that, according to sources with insurgents in the Daraa region, munitions and weapons from the Hashemite kingdom have recently arrived , in particular anti-tank grenades and rockets. (ANSAmed).
