Financial sources for Syria's armed groups
من الخليج إلى سورية عبر "ويسترن يونيون" لاستخدامات "مشبوهة" أكثر من 30 مليون دولار جرى تحويلها خلال بداية الأحداث السورية.. سبعة ملايين دولار إلى درعا خلال شهر
From the Gulf to Syria via "Western Union" for the use of "suspicious" more than $ 30 million was transferred during the beginning of the Syrian events .. Seven million dollars to Daraa during the month
http://www.syriandays.com/?page=show_det&select_page=67&id=28997
Friday 11/25/2011
15:22:10
A source in the "Western Union" remittance service that financial branches and offices in many countries of the world, and particularly the Gulf states, are being used to fund "illegal activities" inside Syria behind the back of the Syrian authorities under the "mechanisms of unusual agreed advance with the management company directly. "
The source said, as quoted by media reports, that its real location is in London ,but regional branches and offices in the Gulf States, "transferred during the first three months of the protest movement in Syria (15 March 15 June) more than thirty million dollars (one billion and a half billion Syrian pounds approximately), this amount has doubled during the next three months, "although the number of agents the company in Syria does not exceed ten, and are present only in very limited number of provinces notably Damascus, Latakia, Aleppo and Idlib.
According to what was reported by the source in London, Daraa alone, "has received during the month of April / April this year alone more than $ 7 million (350 million pounds) of the total of such amounts came mostly from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and Kuwait," noting that the amounts transferred for the benefit of the activities referred to "does not include amounts that ordinary citizens are turning to their parents and their families, and other funds that are being transferred to the inside Syrian other devious ways." According to the source, the complex mechanisms for the transfer of funds "was agreed in secret between official US bodies and Hikmet Ersk, the head of the company of Turkish origin. Under the agreement, given the company permission to exceptional special by those authorities in order to protect them from legal prosecution in the future, given that it's U.S. subject to U.S. sanctions obelisk that Washington imposed on Syria. "
The source revealed that the U.S. agencies involved, particularly the CIA, has held a number of meetings with "Hikmat Ersek," and a number of senior employees in the "Operations of the Western Union" to discuss how to transfer amounts of money from the Gulf to the inside Syria, through the Agents company in Syria, in a manner not raise suspicion with the Syrian authorities and does not constitute a danger to the recipients at home. Note that the financial authorities concerned U.S., and always according to the source, given the guidance to make the roof of such transfers "without borders", given that the "Western Union", as a result of laws enacted by Washington after the "September 11, 2001" to combat "terrorism and drying up its sources of financial", do not allow transfers by individuals exceeding a certain amount (varies from one region to another financial and often does not exceed one thousand dollars) before passing through the U.S. financial authorities and obtaining prior consent!
It is noteworthy that "Hikmet Ersk" was director of operations, "Western Union" in the Middle East and Asia before entrusted to him under the chairmanship of the company's largest of its kind for the services of remittances last year. It is, therefore, on the considerable experience and expertise in the region and the financial services networks.
2 BBC reporters smuggled into Syria from Lebanon, and stayed in Homs along with the Free Syrian Army
Undercover with the Free Syrian Army (Audio news for 08:40)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9647000/9647572.stm
Syria: BBC goes undercover in Homs (Video news for 03:06)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15898544
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