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As
Syria Files
List of 108
Foreign
Fighters with
UNSC, Of
External
Support
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 19 --
Syria has
filed the UN
Security
Council
and Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon a list
of "108
foreign
nationals who
were arrested
by the Syrian
authorities"
on charges of
terrorism.
Inner City
Press has
obtained the
October 19
cover letter
and list, and
puts
them online
here.
Back in May, Syria
turned in a
list of 26
foreign
fighters,
on which Inner
City Press
also first
reported.
Since
then, the
Security
Council has
had much to
say about
terrorism, and
armed groups
with external
support, most
recently in a
Friday
afternoon,
French-drafted
Presidential
Statement
condemning any
outside
support to an
armed group -
M23 - in the
Democratic
Republic
of the Congo.
In
that conflict,
the UN and its
Group of
Experts make
much of
uniforms
and contested
ID cards which
they say prove
the
foreignness or
outside
support of
armed groups.
So how does
the Council
respond to a
list such as
Syria has
submitted?
Watch this
site.
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