Give Syrian freedom fighters weapons

According to their own accounts, deserters of the Syrian army attacked a secret service base north of Damascus on Wednesday. The West should supply them with weapons, writes the former diplomat Ignace Leverrier in his blog Un oeil sur la Syrie in the daily Le Monde: "The demonstrators are begging the international community - or at least those countries that have declared their solidarity - to give the Free Syrian Army what it needs to continue its mission. There is no one else who can defend the demonstrators. It's not a question of creating a new balance of power with these weapons. ... They simply want to be able to keep demonstrating peacefully without immediately being subjected to the brutality of troops loyal to the regime. And they have every right to do so. ... The rebels that want to make use of these arms now expect those who support their justified demands to supply 'their' army with the necessary ammunition and anti-tank weapons."

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