"and there is oil.
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No long term oil - within five years Syria will be oil dependent - official - no good to the west I'm afraid.
"Your only source for sniper stuff to Syria is me, and I deny it."
In which case your suggestion that "all you have come up with is some sniper rifles" was an attempt to mislead us - a lie to cover up the sale of small arms ammunition which exists as a documented sale - a lose-lose situation for you whatever line you have now adopted.
"Assad was not shooting his people."
Maybe not but he was arresting them without trial, torturing and disappearing them the Britsih Government wree aware of this yet were still prepared to issue licences to such a monter - an act of evil "can we agree about that?"
"Not for any irrational reason, but for their inhumanity."
I despise all inhuman regimes, including those who use chemical weapons and heavy artillery on civilians, try to starve them into submission, humiliate them on a daily basis, facilitate the massacre of thousands of refugees, murder aid workers..... and those who support them and sell them weapons - can we agree on that or are you selective about which particular terrorist states you despise?
Jim Carroll