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NIKOSIA - The leader of Syria's Liberation Army (FSA) Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad has called for foreign air strikes against "strategic targets" in Syria to accelerate the fall of the regime, in a telephone interview with AFP.
"We do not approve the entry of foreign troops as was the case in Iraq, but we want the international community to give us logistical support," said Col. Asaad, based on the Turkish border.
"We also want international protection, the provision of no-fly zone, buffer zone and attacks on specific strategic objectives that are considered as very important by the regime," he said.
In contrast, the main opposition leader in exile said after talks in Paris that his organization did not want to see the militants launch attacks against troops of President Bashar al-Assad.
Amid fears of anti-regime demonstrations Assad turned into civil war, Burhan Ghaliun of the National Council of Syria said the FSA should seek to avoid direct confrontation with government troops.
"We want this military defensive action to protect those who have left the military (the regime) and the peaceful demonstration, not for offensive action against the military," she says, Thursday (24/11/2011).
But Asaad said foreign interference limited Tangah will "allow us to win in a relatively short" and select the row of missiles in the coastal area as the main target for attack.
FSA now has 20,000 people within its ranks, which is growing every day, the colonel said.
"We decided to liberate our people and to make this regime falls," he said. He accused the regime was now expecting the "mercenaries" sent by the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and by anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
UN says more than 3,500 people, most of them civilians, have been killed since demonstrations erupted in mid-March, while thousands of people were arrested.
FSA has stepped up attacks in recent weeks and publicly claimed responsibility for deadly operations against the military and members of pro-regime militia.
"We expect the Assad regime will meet the same end as the end (Moamar) Khadafy in Libya," said Asaad.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in late September, they were not surprised that the opposition to Syria's turn to violence as a "defensive action" of the bloody crackdown.
"We do not approve the entry of foreign troops as was the case in Iraq, but we want the international community to give us logistical support," said Col. Asaad, based on the Turkish border.
"We also want international protection, the provision of no-fly zone, buffer zone and attacks on specific strategic objectives that are considered as very important by the regime," he said.
In contrast, the main opposition leader in exile said after talks in Paris that his organization did not want to see the militants launch attacks against troops of President Bashar al-Assad.
Amid fears of anti-regime demonstrations Assad turned into civil war, Burhan Ghaliun of the National Council of Syria said the FSA should seek to avoid direct confrontation with government troops.
"We want this military defensive action to protect those who have left the military (the regime) and the peaceful demonstration, not for offensive action against the military," she says, Thursday (24/11/2011).
But Asaad said foreign interference limited Tangah will "allow us to win in a relatively short" and select the row of missiles in the coastal area as the main target for attack.
FSA now has 20,000 people within its ranks, which is growing every day, the colonel said.
"We decided to liberate our people and to make this regime falls," he said. He accused the regime was now expecting the "mercenaries" sent by the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and by anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
UN says more than 3,500 people, most of them civilians, have been killed since demonstrations erupted in mid-March, while thousands of people were arrested.
FSA has stepped up attacks in recent weeks and publicly claimed responsibility for deadly operations against the military and members of pro-regime militia.
"We expect the Assad regime will meet the same end as the end (Moamar) Khadafy in Libya," said Asaad.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in late September, they were not surprised that the opposition to Syria's turn to violence as a "defensive action" of the bloody crackdown.
