UK to set up camps inside Syria to help rebels

Syrian rebels (File Photo)

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/04/244578/uk-to-set-up-camps-to-help-syria-rebels/

Britain is reportedly planning to set up refugee camps inside Syria under the pretext of saving civilian lives but in reality to help armed rebels fighting against the government.

According to a report published in Daily Star, British Special Forces would set up camps along Syria’s borders with Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon and that Special Air Service (SAS) troops and MI6 agents will help the rebels if civil war breaks out in the country.

They also have hi-tech satellite computers and radios that can instantly send back photos and details of events unfolding in Syria.

''There are guys in the communications unit who are signalers that can go right up front and get involved in close-quarter fighting,'' Daily Star quoted a senior Whitehall source as saying.

The British troops would be part of an international force including French and Turkish soldiers and possibly Americans.

A senior Whitehall source said that London is preparing for the move with the full knowledge that setting up camps inside Syria would be an invasion of the country.

The camps are expected to be set up around areas that are easily accessible and even within walking distance of trouble spots. Among them is Krak des Chevaliers, a medieval castle about 25 miles west of Homs close to the Lebanon border, Al-Suwayda, near the border with Jordan and Jisr al-Shughour near the Turkish border.

The British claim that Syrian forces would not dare to come that close to the border.

Israeli intelligence news agency, Debkafile, had earlier reported that British troops are already in Syria leading armed groups in the crisis-hit city of Homs and that the MI6 has established four centers of operation in the city.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011 and many people, including hundreds of security forces, have been killed in the country over the past 15 months. While the West and the Syrian opposition say the government is responsible for the killings, Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.