Paris: NATO-Arab Syria intervention imminent
Sources close to the French Defense Ministry reported Friday, Dec. 7, that a
Western-Arab military intervention against the Assad regime is due to begin
shortly with the participation of the US, France, Britain, Turkey, Jordan and
other anti-Assad Arab nations.
debkafile: The reference is to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar’s
special forces.
Our military sources add that the French aircraft carrier Charles De
Gaulle carrying a complement of marines is deployed in the Mediterranean,
having joined the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and at least five
British warships which are also carrying a large marine force.
In the second and third weeks of November, British and French naval forces,
plus 2,600 special ops combatants from both nations, performed
landing-and-capture exercises against fortified locations on the coast
and mountains of Albania as practice for potential operations against similar
terrain in Syria, where the Alawite Mountains loom over the coastal towns of
Latakia and Tartus.
The troops landing there would head for the Alawite Mts. to prevent Assad and
his loyal units from retreating to his mountain stronghold and fighting on from
there - as he plans to do if he is forced to flee Damascus.
French sources
told Le Point magazine that the NATO mission for Syria, including the
UK and the US, would be modeled on the Western intervention in Libya in 2011. It
would combine an aerial blitz with ground action by special forces for
destroying Assad’s chemical weapons stocks, his air force and his air defense
systems.
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