Syrian President bashar al-assad's forces rebels fighting must be ammunition and heavy weapons against the regime's tanks and aircraft, otherwise will not prevail, senator John McCain, said a few days later, he quietly slipped into Syria to meet with the opposition.
"They just can't play tanks with an ak-47 assault rifle," McCain said in a telephone interview on Friday.
Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates in 2008 conducted a surprise visit Syria on Monday, Achilles, near Turkey's border, across spend about two hours meeting with rebel leaders. McCain has been the most members of congress, asked the us's aggressive military action in Syria's civil war two years old, called for a no-fly zone and armed rebels.
The Obama administration has been reluctant to different opposition providing weapons, afraid that they might fall into the wrong hands, a volatile regions. McCain said he discussed the rebels needed what types of weapons, and whether they can ensure their control.
, "McCain said:" I believe that they can get into the right hand weapons, there is no doubt that they need some kind of ability to reverse the war situation, now is the support for Mr Assad.
McCain's armed services and members of the council on foreign relations, is the first U.S. senators to Syria since the civil war began more than two years ago. He said he had and deputy director, national William burns in the itinerary.
McCain said he and secretary of state, John kerry, "several times, this is not to say that I hide from him, it just doesn't seem to come up, I want to go through. Burns is the right person is very important. We cannot do without their cooperation."
Free Syrian army's supreme military council chief general salim idris, with McCain and they met 19 battalion commander.
Citing McCain's meeting photos, newspaper reports in Lebanon, Mr McCain unknowingly crossed paths connecting to a rebel group is responsible for the 11 in 2012, the Lebanese shia pilgrims kidnapped two people. McCain says, he is said to have meeting with one man is dead, no one in his conference was identified as the other.
"I meet to talk directly with it for approval. I outlined their names and their responsibilities, they come from different parts of Syria," he said. "
Two years of violence in Syria has killed more than 70000 people, according to the UN. President Obama has asked assad to give up power, while Russia has stood in Syria's closest ally in the Arab world. Russian officials said they would support the Syrian air defense systems, assad suggested on Thursday, he received the first shipment.
The United States and Russia is trying to make the Syrian government and opposition forces to enter peace talks. Has been postponed to July the earliest in these talks, preliminary plans next month in Geneva.
"It is hard to imagine bashar al-assad talks when he left, he has the upper hand on the battlefield," McCain said. "All my meeting, but I think when bashar assad, know that he is doomed to defeat, if he don't consultation should take place."
Last week, the senate foreign relations committee voted by providing weapons to the rebels in Syria, as well as military training review rebel groups and people who sell oil or transfer of weapons sanctions against the assad regime.
Late on Monday the European Union decided to lift arms embargo against China, Syria's opposition, while keeping all other sanctions against the assad regime, after June 1,, the British foreign secretary William Hague said.



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