ALJAZEERA: …”The president has made a decision about providing more support to the opposition, that will involve providing direct support to the [Supreme Military Council], that includes military support,” Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters on a conference call on Thursday…
“Our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year,” Rhodes said…
Rhodes did not say if the United States was moving towards directly arming the rebels battling Assad but said Obama “will be consulting with Congress on these matters in the coming weeks.” … (more)
