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From: Terje Rod-Larsen- Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fw: Syria Original Message From: Francois Carrel-Billiard To: Terje Rod-Larsen; Andrea Pfanzelter Sent: Wed Jul 18 12:49:21 2012 =ubject: FW: Syria Dear Terje, Please find below a message from Abdullah Alsaidi re: Syria. Best, F Original Message From: Abdullah Alsaidi Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:35 PM To: Francois Carrel-Billiard Cc: Peter Gastrow; Francesco Mancini Subject: Syria Dear Francois, I met today with Ms. Basama Kadmani, of the Syrian National Council, who is=visiting New York to lobby members of the Security Council. I learned from=her the followings: 1.The United States forbid Gulf States from providing the Syrian Free Army =ith the weapons necessary to effectively defend themselves. I advised them=to pursue this matter with London; UK has more influence with Washington; =. I inquired about the whereabout of Vice President Farouk Al-Shara. Ms. K=dmani said that he is, like all vice presidents, waiting in the shadow for=orders from his his boss; she said that he "coward" and nothing daring is =xpected of him; 3.The SNC is now pondering its next strategy; for, the cur=ent political process has failed. The Security Council will not be able to=end the violence and secure a political settlement; 4.The Syrian oppositio= is fragmented and the regime, through its many agents, has infiltrated it= There are so many military formations that are working independently from e=ch other. In ldlib province, there are al least eighty military grioups. 1= Douma, small town in the outskirt of Damascus, there are many military or=anizations fighting the regular army without unified military command; S.T=e Syrian National Council lacks the necessary resources to provide for the=humanitarian needs of the refugees and buy essential arms for Syrian Free =rmy; and 6.The Syrian opposition look with trepidation at the growing str=ngth of Wahabi Salfist movements and their disruptive rule. Please convey to Tereje. Best regards, Abdullah <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "I/Apple/MID PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> EFTA_R1_01717175 EFTA02557849 <dict> <key>conversation-id</key> <integer>226301</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-receiyed</key> <integer>1342630953</integer> <key>flags</key> <I nteger>8590195713</i nteger> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>235997</string> </diet> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01717176 EFTA02557850