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    Obama Administration waives ban on arming Syrian terrorist groups

    Per the Washington Examiner:
    The president, citing his authority under the Arms Export Control Act, announced today that he would "waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40A of the AECA related to such a transaction."


    UPDATED: Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition - Washington Examiner
    http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-waives-ban-on-arming-terrorists-to-allow-aid-to-syrian-opposition/article/2535885
    President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Some elements of the Syrian opposition are associated with radical Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, which



    Section 40 is extracted here:
    22 U.S. Code § 2780 - Transactions with countries supporting acts of international terrorism
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2780


    It relevantly provides:
    (a) The following transactions by the United States Government are prohibited:
    (1) Exporting or otherwise providing (by sale, lease or loan, grant, or other means), directly or indirectly, any munitions item to a country described in subsection (d) of this section under the authority of this chapter, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.], or any other law (except as provided in subsection (h) of this section)...(5)This paragraph applies with respect to activities undertaken—(A) by any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the Government....

    (b)A United States person may not take any of the following actions:
    (A) Exporting any munitions item to any country described in subsection (d) of this section....

    (c) Transfers to governments and persons covered
    This section applies with respect to—
    (1) the acquisition of munitions items by the government of a country described in subsection (d) of this section; and
    (2) the acquisition of munitions items by any individual, group, or other person within a country described in subsection (d) of this section, except to the extent that subparagraph (D) of subsection (b)(1) of this section provides otherwise.
    (d)(d) Countries covered by prohibition
    The prohibitions contained in this section apply with respect to a country if the Secretary of State determines that the government of that country has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism...
    (g) Waiver. The President may waive the prohibitions contained in this section with respect to a specific transaction if—
    (1) the President determines that the transaction is essential to the national security interests of the United States; and
    (2) not less than 15 days prior to the proposed transaction, the President—
    (A) consults with the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
    (B) submits to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report....


    Allahu Akhbar!
    "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier
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  • #2
    Are you pro-Assad and anti-intervention? I'm confused.
    "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
    "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Zevico
      Mad anti-Muslim rambings
      So?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
        Are you pro-Assad and anti-intervention? I'm confused.
        I hope they both lose. I don't see anything to gain from arming al-Qaeda associated groups. I don't see anything to gain from funding Assad. I suppose that's mad and anti-Muslim? Mad, yes. Madly, madly anti-Islamist. Madly anti-apartheid by way of Ba'athism.
        Last edited by Zevico; September 17, 2013, 09:37.
        "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier

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        • #5
          ROBBLE ROBBLE ROBBLE ROBBLE ISLAM
          To us, it is the BEAST.

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          • #6
            I'm pro-Assad, in the sense that I think he's less problematic as a leader of Syria than any of his alternatives.
            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
            ){ :|:& };:

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            • #7
              I'm pro-"I hope the country falls into the Mediterranean"
              To us, it is the BEAST.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                I'm pro-Assad, in the sense that I think he's less problematic as a leader of Syria than any of his alternatives.
                Yeah. Still I think the Russians are doing enough to give him a helping hand in this time of need.
                "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier

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                • #9
                  but but but we Have to Do Something Think of All of Those Innocent Lives!

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                  • #10
                    Classy to mock over 100,000 civilian deaths.

                    And you wonder why people compare you to Stalin?
                    To us, it is the BEAST.

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                    • #11
                      We've got the biggest hammer ever seen in human history; why just leave all these nails lying around?
                      "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
                      "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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                      • #12
                        I think he's mocking the notion that we have to do something when there's nothing we can do to make it better, only make it worse.
                        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
                        ){ :|:& };:

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                          I think he's mocking the notion that we have to do something when there's nothing we can do to make it better, only make it worse.
                          Let your DL speak for himself!

                          Regardless... same difference.
                          To us, it is the BEAST.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sava View Post
                            Classy to mock over 100,000 civilian deaths.
                            I don't care about the lives of Syrian, North Korean, or any other third world ****hole civilians and neither do you.
                            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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                            • #15
                              Maybe I do.
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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