UK takes leading role in Ensuring a Syrian Civil War

UK recognizes Syrian rebels
24 February, 2012 – ABNA

Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that his country will recognize the Syrian rebels as a “legitimate representative” of the Middle Eastern country.

UK recognizes Syrian rebels

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Hague made the announcement as he arrived in Tunisia to attend the so-called “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunis, media reports said.

“We, in common with other nations, will now treat them and recognize them as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people”, Hague said, referring to armed terror gangs who have taken arms against the popular government of President Bashar al-Assad in a few towns across the country.

In yet another example of the UK’s double standards on foreign policy issues, William Hague described President Assad’s government as a “criminal regime” and vowed to provide weapons and intelligence to rebels and terrorist snipers fighting the Syrian government forces and civilian population in the country.

Britain and its allies are providing the rebels inside Syria with intelligence and various types of weaponry, while at the same time they are arming the despotic regimes in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia against their own people.

In Bahrain, the UK government has continued selling weaponry to the despotic regime of al-Khalifa irrespective of continuing political oppression of the people.

Official figures revealed that Britain approved the sale of military equipment valued at more than £1 million to the Bahraini regime after the violent crackdown on anti-regime protesters a year ago.

According to the figures, the sale included licenses for weapon sights, rifles, artillery and parts for military training aircraft. …more